9/23/2023 0 Comments Valley arts robot guitar![]() ![]() But Tom Hanks in The Polar Express? CGI Stormtroopers? A wax figure of Nicole Kidman? Nearly human, unsettlingly so.Ī tenured robotics professor at MIT couldn’t have explained it to me better. For example: C3PO and R2D2 are cute because they’re robots and they’re not supposed to look like human beings. Frank warns him that the project is doomed to fail: “As artificial representations of humans become more and more realistic, they reach a point where they stop being endearing and become creepy”-a point known as the uncanny valley. ![]() Tracy, worried about his legacy, has been trying to design the world’s first pornographic video game. ![]() I learned about the “uncanny valley”-and a lot of other things in my intellectual repertoire, but that’s for another time-from 30 Rock. ![]()
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