Entries tagged with: Uncanny Valley
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BIL2012 Talk: Peak Humanity
BIL has finally posted the talk I gave earlier this year: The crux of the talk is an elaboration on the "second uncanny valley" idea I wrote about some time ago. I've come to realize that it this was too...
Diesel Sweetness
I know that I'm a success, now that I've been immortalized as a comic strip character. In the Friday, July 30 edition of r. stevens' Diesel Sweeties, there appeared: ...and that difference? Head over to Diesel Sweeties to find out...
Tuesday Topsight, August 26, 2008
Lots of stuff, some of which I hope to get back to in more detail. • Crowd (Re)Sourcing: Spot.us is a new bottom-up journalism site with a novel funding model: community members pool their money to pay journalists to go...
The Second Uncanny Valley
The "Uncanny Valley" is the evocative name for the commonplace reaction to realistic-but-not-quite-right simulated humans, robotic or animated. Most of us, when encountering such a simulacrum, have an instinctive "it's creepy" response, one that is enhanced when the sim...
Monday Topsight, September 17, 2007
Back in the US now, at least for the next two weeks -- then off to Budapest, to speak at a conference entitled "Visions of the Future. Technology and Society: Global and Local Challenges." Trying to get back into the...
RoboFactory
(Cue "Powerhouse," by Raymond Scott) Nanofabbers are on my mind right now. They've shown up in some work I'm doing with IFTF; they're the focus of a project underway with CRN; and they're one of the manifestations of the "software...
Must-Know Concepts for the 21st Century
My colleague at IEET, George Dvorsky, posted a list of concept about the future that he sees as vital for people who consider themselves to be intelligent to know and understand. His goal is admirable: too much of what passes...
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