A new tool from AI startup Odyssey offers an experience in AI-generated locations that you can interact with, and it's produced in almost real-time. Odyssey calls it "interactive video," an AI-powered ...

On today’s episode of ‘Uncanny Valley,’ we discuss how WIRED was able to legally 3D-print the same gun allegedly used by Luigi Mangione, and where US law stands on the technology.

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

The uncanny valley is what makes the CG animation of ... the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz and approximately six hundred million ...

The uncanny valley effect depends on age, country and background of the subjects. For instance, it is noticeably weaker for gamers, as shown by Katja Zibrek et al. Possibly, those who spent a lot ...

Leah Feiger: His background is so colorful ... Katie Drummond: Welcome back to Uncanny Valley. I'm Katie Drummond, WIRED's global editorial director, and we are here talking about the latest ...

This very gap—being close to human but not quite—is what causes the sense of unease, and it’s referred to as the “uncanny valley.” But what is it about the almost-but-not-quite-human ...

However, in reality, as generative AI becomes more “human” it can begin to turn sinister and unsettling, plunging us into what robotics has long described as the “uncanny valley.” ...

ABSTRACT: Background: A significant challenge in developing AI assistants, such as chatbots as mentors or coaches for leaders, is the Uncanny Valley effect. This phenomenon describes the discomfort ...