
Selects: Is The Uncanny Valley Real?
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The Origins of Lifelike Robotics
In the 1600s, people were like, eh, I don't like that. Morrie made this graph because he was a roboticist and he thought, you know, let's look at this on a plotted out so we can stare at it. On the x axis, he had human likeness. Then on the y axis, heHad affinity like whether or not you like the way this thing looks. The graph went up and up as things got more lifelike and people liked the way it looked. And then at a certain point, there is that valley. There's a big dip, uh, that really just kind of says it all. Right? It makes sense intuitively
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