#uncanny-valley tag

3 weeks ago

The deceptive side of robot cuteness

Cute design in robots enhances social presence, accelerates attachment formation, and increases user forgiveness through three main approaches: baby schema, pet-like, and kawaii aesthetics.

fromFast Company

1 month ago

China's new AI video tools close the uncanny valley for good

Chinese generative video models Kling 3.0 and Seedance 2.0 produce film-quality, indistinguishable video with director-level control, overcoming the uncanny valley.

fromwww.theguardian.com

1 month ago

Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky's AI revolutionary war series is a horror

An AI-generated short series about the American Revolutionary War attempts photorealism but results in unsettling, low-quality, uncanny visuals that harm the dramatic intent.

Medicine

2 months ago

Giraffe, muppet, or human?

Moderately realistic animal avatars (like a giraffe) balance familiarity and novelty, reducing uncanny impressions and improving emotional comfort for children in VR.

#generative-ai

2 months ago

Artificial intelligence

The algorithmic atelier

fromDigiday

Artificial intelligence

Marketers warm to AI, but creative challenges and legal risks still loom

2 months ago

Artificial intelligence

The algorithmic atelier

fromDigiday

Artificial intelligence

Marketers warm to AI, but creative challenges and legal risks still loom

Disney's Robot Olaf Is a Straight Up Nightmare

Disney engineers built a remarkably lifelike walking Olaf robot that faithfully replicates the character's appearance, gait, and interactions, producing both delight and uncanny unease.

Television

fromThe New Yorker

3 months ago

The Best Performances of 2025

Artificial creations provoked debate while flesh-and-blood actors delivered extraordinary, genre-spanning performances amid an industry leaning toward the synthetic.

Television

fromInsideHook

4 months ago

Glen Powell and "SNL" Took on AI Hallucinations

Glen Powell's long-delayed SNL hosting displayed versatile characters and highlighted a chilling AI-photo sketch that explored the uncanny valley and AI hallucination concerns.

4 months ago

Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator

The clip, which circulated on social media, show a robotic exoskeleton strapped to a harness walking in a straight line. While XPeng's Iron units are usually clad in a sleek white skin, this one is totally nude - and it looks like something straight out of the post-apocalyptic RPG Fallout, or like the titular antagonists from the "Terminator" franchise. The bot also cleans up nicely.

Gadgets

Marketing

4 months ago

Coke's New AI-Generated Ad Required 100 Staff and 70,000 AI-Generated Clips, and It Still Looks Like Garbage

Coca-Cola released an AI-generated "Holidays Are Coming" ad that echoes the 1995 classic but features uncanny visuals, animal-focused scenes, and disjointed hyperrealism.

5 months ago

OpenAI Releases Ghoulish AI Video of Sam Altman

OpenAI released Sora 2, a text-to-video and audio AI generator whose unsettling, unconvincing promotional deepfake of Sam Altman drew heavy social-media criticism.

Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic Facial Expressions

A Chinese robotics company demonstrated a humanoid head capable of expressing lifelike emotions through subtle facial movements powered by AI and bionic actuation.

fromBusiness Insider

Stephen Colbert explains one of his big hangups about AI-created art

"The Late Show" host said on an episode of the "Possible" podcast published Wednesday that AI can mimic art but will always struggle to escape the "uncanny valley." He asked whether AI-generated art will ever stop feeling "alien." True art comes from people because it fuses ideas with emotional experience, he said. "Art is by humans for humans about being human. It's not about ideas because ideas are constructs, and humans are not a construct," Colbert said.

Artificial intelligence

fromTheregister

Our writer let an AI interview him for a job. It wasn't fun

Job Bolt's AI avatars conduct simulated job interviews that feel unnerving due to twitchy non-verbal behavior, delayed responses, and lack of real-time conversational cues.