Though it’s likely that few in the audience have ever heard the term before, “uncanny village” is a computer-industry phrase that indicates a certain amount of anxiety when a huma… ...

The viral "uncanny valley" makeup trend is taking over TikTok with more than 40 million views as creators are trying to spook their viewers with their scary good makeup skills.

Generally called the uncanny valley makeup trend, it involves creators using makeup to appear as hyper-realistic bots. Some of the videos under this trend have received up to 13 million likes on ...

The Uncanny Valley: Advancements And Anxieties Of AI That Mimics Life Adobe Stock Seeing something that looks almost but not exactly human can be a strange and frightening experience for some people.

The essay “Uncanny Valley” was dismal, biting, and revelatory. It went viral, instantly making Wiener one of tech’s few highbrow critics. By 2018, when she was ready to quit tech, she sold ...

Fearing such an effect, many animation studios steer clear of the uncanny valley altogether and prefer to place cartoonish humans amid more realistic surroundings, as in the Oscar-winning Pixar ...

Basically, humans comfortably engage with robots up until they reach the drop-off point, or valley, along the curve. That's when robots become too human-like and begin to make us feel unsettled ...

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“Uncanny Valley,” Wiener’s biting and funny memoir of her days in San Francisco’s start-up salt mines during the aughts, is a story about wanting to be one thing and becoming its opposite.