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With all the CGI cat-humans going around on the internet these days, it’s hard to deny the sense of yikes known as the uncanny valley. But what exactly is this phenomenon, and why do we feel it when we do?
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Sources:
apa.org/pubs/journals/features/gpr-gpr0000056.pdf
spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/the-uncanny-valley
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sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027715300640
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With all the CGI cat-humans going around on the internet these days, it’s hard to deny the sense of yikes known as the uncanny valley. But what exactly is this phenomenon, and why do we feel it when we do?
Hosted by: Hank Green
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Sources:
apa.org/pubs/journals/features/gpr-gpr0000056.pdf
spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/the-uncanny-valley
https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027715300640
http://www.macdorman.com/kfm/writings/pubs/MacDorman2006AndroidScience.pdf
theconversation.com/uncanny-valley-why-we-find-human-like-robots-and-dolls-so-creepy-50268
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130901-is-the-uncanny-valley-real
academic.oup.com/scan/article/7/4/413/1738009
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563213000113
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027712001278
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Actroid-DER_01.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MacDorman_Uncanny_Valley_Experiment_1_Robot_1_Graph.PNG
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walking-in-the-uncanny-valley-importance-of-the-attractiveness-on-the-acceptance-of-a-robot-as-a-Video1.ogv
flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/789094
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Telenoid%E2%84%A2_R4_(tele-presence_robot_for_mobile_communication)_by_ATR_Hiroshi_Ishiguro_Laboratory,_exhibited_at_Miraikan_(2015-06-15_03.48.40_by_Franklin_Heijnen).jpg
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ars_electronica_center_2012_Hugvie_01.jpg
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Actroid_4.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otonaroid%C2%AE_(adult_android),_a_teleoperated_android_robot_that_lets_you_talk_to_other_through_an_android,_exhibited_at_Miraikan_(2015-06-15_03.53.09_by_Franklin_Heijnen).jpg
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wax_figure_of_Frank_De_Boer*.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wax_figure_of_Cheryl.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sissi_im_Panoptikum_Hamburg.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wax_statue_of_Oscar_Wilde,_National_Wax_Museum_Plus,_Dublin.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sophia_at_the_AI_for_Good_Global_Summit_2018_(27254369347)_(cropped).jpg
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Female_Bunraku_puppet_Japan,_early_20th_century.JPG
