Robotics professor Masahiro Mori named this phenomenon the “ uncanny valley ” in 1970: Models that look like human faces but ...

When things are even just a little, tiny bit off, we notice. That’s the theory behind the “uncanny valley,” the idea that the closer humanoid robots look to real people, the more that subtle ...

(CEO Sam Altman referenced the film — where a lonely man falls in love with an AI ... that hurts my heart about this, too. It’s uncanny enough having a complex text conversation with ...

On this special episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Elon Musk’s move to put spending limits on US government employee credit cards, plus how DOGE is embracing AI. You can always listen to ...

I ended CES by finishing a book. It was Uncanny Valley, a memoir from New Yorker contributor Anna Wiener, which comes out on Tuesday. It’s not a polemic, and, despite the many (thinly veiled ...