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What's In A Face

TED Radio Hour

CHAPTER

The Uncanny Valley

In the demo video, a man is home after knee surgery and consults on his laptop with his AI nurse. Once you get to a certain level of quality, you kind of pass what we've referred to as the uncanny valley. It doesn't matter whether you can tell it's real or not. That's not the deciding factor. And so for us to succeed in those cases, we really need to make sure that it's the sort of the back end behind the face that's delivering what's wanted,. Not so much the face itself.

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