The use of AI-generated testimonials with increasingly realistic human features is becoming widespread on social media ...

AI-generated avatars are increasingly used to deliver science content on platforms like TikTok, raising questions about how ...

Learn more about how people perceive AI avatars on social media and how they could impact science communication.

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 ...

“The Uncanny Valley,” a phrase coined by Masahiro Mori, suggests that human replicas that appear ... the Tussauds wax sculptures to appear more real than they do in the museum.

A drop-shipped dupe of the designer handbag that is the human experience ... behind the “uncanny valley,” the idea that the closer humanoid robots look to real people, the more that subtle ...

Wikipedia says “The uncanny valley hypothesis predicts that an entity appearing almost human will risk eliciting cold, eerie feelings in viewers.” And yes, we have to admit that as incredible ...

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

"Uncanny," at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, mines the anxious terrain of flesh, robots and off-kilter realism.

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 ...