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AI Agents’ life-like responses are fast improving to being indistinguishable from human responses through conversational and contextual depth (closing the “Uncanny Valley” gap). But for ...

The use of AI-generated testimonials with increasingly realistic human features is becoming widespread on social media ...

Seeing human-like robots, dolls, and AI-generated faces can trigger eerie, put-off feelings towards the figure, a phenomenon known as the uncanny valley. Though these figures look almost human, there ...

The uncanny valley describes a human reaction to humanoid avatars (digital or robotic): when they look hyper-realistic but not quite perfect, they may evoke strong discomfort, while more stylized ...

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we break it all down. Mentioned in this episode: DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants, by Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott ...

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we unpack the trial between Meta and the FTC. You can always listen to this week's podcast through the audio player on this page, but if you want to subscribe ...

Laurie Simmons, “The Music of Regret IV,” 1994. Cibachrome print. (Laurie Simmons/National Museum of Women in the Arts, gift of Steven Scott in honor of Susan Fisher Sterling) Review by Maura ...