uncanny valley
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- Generative People Personalities; Content Distribution Networks (Taylor's Version) … I think it's the speech synthesis that tips the whole thing out of the uncanny valley and into something different. One personality stuck out in particular -- "Josh …
- Yet Another DALL·E-related Reckon … not in the uncanny valley) images of humans who do not exist, the product of machine learning trained on lots and lots of pictures of real people The …
- No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing … this from Juanita too, in the earlier conversation about how getting past the uncanny valley was an important development of the Metaverse and The Black Sun. So that …
- The Defense of Humanity Act … USA! USA! chanting going and instead tried not to feel sorry for the uncanny valley simulacra stuck in a skinsuit trying to pretend to be a Normal American …
- Uncanny Valley; Network Du Jour; Streaking Considered Harmful … 1.0 Uncanny Valley First: of all the accidents involving Google's self-driving car, they were all caused either by a human taking over from the self …
- 2015 (1); A Manifesto Walks Into A Website; Stuff About The Web And Post Capitalism Again … This, I think, is squarely and firmly in the uncanny valley of manifestos. But, you know, we've got a new Apple now. Steve's gone, everyone's …
- Episode One Hundred and Ninety Five: … that non uncanny valley of hacking at the backdoor vulnerability of us reading emotion and intent and agency into anything that even *looks* like it has a face …
- The Material (4); More Ways Of Seeing … the time but I wonder if we're about to fall into an uncanny valley that's exacerbated by an inability to interrogate and to retrain. Imagine a …
- Allies; How Does This Even; Maximum Happy Imagination … They are simultaneously so close to one hundred percent organic free range human speech and yet also stuck in a sort of uncanny valley that, it feels like …
- Transcendence; Broom-Shaped Objects; Odds … all that stuff, while at the same time not being trapped in an uncanny valley, or, actually, just deceiving or manipulating people? It feels a little like the …
- The Difficulty … and species/3D rendering options but as always, it comes down to the uncanny valley of actual user interaction through speech. I'm not sure what the state …
- Literal Tone Of Voice, Presence, Networks, Applescript … It's easy for us to pay attention to the uncanny valley of computer generated imagery. That doesn't mean there isn't a similar uncanny valley of …
- The Inevitable Apple TV Episode and Algorithmically Induced Sadness … Algorithmically Induced Sadness I had my first Sad Algorithm moment, that not-quite uncanny valley of algorithmically induced emotion that happens when a notification system designed to be …