which he apparently thinks is a more common expression that it is.
That’s a name for the vaguely uneasy feeling we get when something artificial, like an android creature, or an AI “photo”, looks almost but not quite human…
the closer it gets to human, the more creepy it seems.
It’s a big topic of discussion among robot designers, who want their creations to be lovable, not unsettling…
and the stuff of some horror movies, like, say, where replicants or pod people take over for familiar characters, and only some townspeople can tell.
Some viewers, including me… but especially children… reacted that way to “Polar Express” … creeped out by the almost realistic but blank-eyed animation.
OK… another brain twister from Dan…
but I’d say it’s a pun on “uncanny valley” …
which he apparently thinks is a more common expression that it is.
That’s a name for the vaguely uneasy feeling we get when something artificial, like an android creature, or an AI “photo”, looks almost but not quite human…
the closer it gets to human, the more creepy it seems.
It’s a big topic of discussion among robot designers, who want their creations to be lovable, not unsettling…
and the stuff of some horror movies, like, say, where replicants or pod people take over for familiar characters, and only some townspeople can tell.
Some viewers, including me… but especially children… reacted that way to “Polar Express” … creeped out by the almost realistic but blank-eyed animation.