A new study reveals that advanced AI models like GPT-4.5 can now convincingly imitate humans in conversation—sometimes even ...

Donald Trump’s tariff announcements are roiling the markets. On this week’s special episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we break it ...

The more realistic faces are, the harder it is to make them likable. Robotics professor Masahiro Mori named this phenomenon the “uncanny valley” in 1970: Models that look like human faces but ...

This week on Uncanny Valley ... cost of human drivers harming people on the road, and proponents of self-driving cars will often argue that self-driving cars harm many fewer people than human ...

A new study has found that OpenAI 's latest large language model not only passed the Turing Test but outperformed actual humans in being perceived as human.

What happens when AI moves beyond convincing chatbots and custom image generators to something that matches—or ...

The uncanny valley is what makes the CG animation of Bob Zemeckis movies so skin-crawling. It’s why we cringed through Mass Effect: Andromeda. The reason AI generated babies raise instinctual alarm ...

Lately, I’ve been finding myself more and more unsettled by digital faces tweaked and pixelated into odd perfection and real ...

AI-generated images are becoming harder to spot. During scrolling, the brain processes visuals quickly, not critically, making it easy to miss details that reveal a fake. As technology advances, slow ...