These Pokemon are too human-like for their own good, to the point it feels weird to make them eat out of a bowl like a dog.

In this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we talk about Meta’s recent investment in Scale AI and its move to build a ...

Meta’s latest generative AI trick is to remake your videos in all kinds of fun and outright goofy ways. The Meta AI assistant ...

The uncanny valley is what makes the CG animation of Bob Zemeckis movies so skin-crawling. It’s why we cringed through Mass Effect: ... the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum ...

The uncanny valley is what makes the CG animation of Bob Zemeckis movies so skin-crawling. It’s why we cringed through Mass Effect: Andromeda. The reason AI generated babies raise instinctual ...

There’s something uncanny about the office. It has furniture and lights and doors, but nothing you would ever put in your own house. You eat in a little room they tell you to, wear drab office ...

• The uncanny valley effect depends on age, country and background of the subjects. For instance, it is noticeably weaker for gamers, as shown by Katja Zibrek et al. Possibly, ...

ABSTRACT: Background: A significant challenge in developing AI assistants, such as chatbots as mentors or coaches for leaders, is the Uncanny Valley effect. This phenomenon describes the discomfort ...

ABSTRACT: Background: A significant challenge in developing AI assistants, such as chatbots as mentors or coaches for leaders, is the Uncanny Valley effect. This phenomenon describes the discomfort ...

The Uncanny Valley The term “uncanny valley” was coined by robotics professor Masahiro Miro in 1970; it hypothesizes that our emotional reaction to robots becomes increasingly positive the more human ...