The Uncanny Valley affects trust in human-robot interaction, making near-human robots appear unsettling. Eye tracking and facial expression analysis reveal how subtle imperfections in movement and ...

Sesame changed that. In a blog post titled "Crossing the Uncanny Valley of Conversational Voice," the company dropped a demo of its new AI that lets you talk to either "Maya" or "Miles." ...

Are LLMs creepy? That odd feeling—the moment an ... because the creep factor isn’t in the technology itself—it’s in us. The Uncanny Valley of Thought We’ve long understood the uncanny ...

On this week’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we assess the state of swiping ... you get very short snippets and it's more photo dominant, so it's like people put less time into the profiles ...

Even when crafted by the most skillful wax-workers in the world, wax figures are creepy, as if birthed like Uruk-hai from the muddy depths of the Uncanny Valley, that place where exists things that ..

On this special episode of Uncanny Valley, WIRED’s politics editor and ... Obviously a massive story, a massive news event, and photos were released of him raising his fist.

But there’s also a scary movie subgenre that aims to weaponize ... Analog horror is so very frightening because it’s effectively the uncanny valley of film. The uncanny valley refers to ...

Uncanny Valley' investigates artificial intelligence, exploring its evolution, risks, and potential. The discussions often blur the lines between reality and science fiction, making it a ...

Hollywood's biggest night, the Academy Awards, arrives this weekend, but this year there's some monkey business going on.