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This week, our host Lauren Goode, along with two of our senior writers, Kate Knibbs and Paresh Dave, dive into the show’s ...

Mooser was careful not to downplay that these concerns about generative AI were a big part of what plunged Hollywood into a double strike back in 2023. But he is resolute in his belief that many of ...

This concern has a name — uncanny valley — and it's been around since 1970, when Masahiro Mori, then a professor of engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology, coined the term and wrote an essay ...

de Young Museum; San Francisco, CA, Jan. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What are the invisible mechanisms of current forms of artificial intellige ...

Rozy, on the other hand, is readily mistaken for a human being. She is the first AI influencer with a fan base. Though difficult to imagine, Rozy has attracted over 100 sponsorship deals.

In 1970, roboticist Masahiro Mori coined the term “uncanny valley” to explain how machines will suddenly and drastically creep a lot of people out as they become more humanlike.

The term “uncanny valley” went viral earlier this year after a collection of AI-generated images appearing to show a house party spooked viewers who struggled to spot why the images were so eerie.

When I query ChatGPT about the uncanny valley, it knows where I’m coming from: “If an AI generates text that is highly convincing in terms of content and coherence, but lacks emotional depth ...