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 Uncanny Valley Explained - Why Robots, Dolls and Mannequins are Creepy The Uncanny Valley is a common unsettling, anxious, creepy feeling people experience when androids, robots, dolls, mannequins ...

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 ...

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts explain how to prepare for travel to and from the United States—and how to stay safe. All products featured on Wired are independently selected by ...

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 ...

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 ...

sourcing their furniture from Facebook Marketplace and hand-painting the entire store purple and yellow to evoke what Mills describes as “an uncanny valley Blockbuster.” Old TV sets throughout ...

It turns out there’s a deus ex machina madman at work in this uncanny valley, and as part of his diabolical project to learn more about the mechanics of fear, he reboots days and forces his ...