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uncanny valley
[uhn-kan-ee val-ee]
noun
a psychological concept that describes the feelings of unease or revulsion that people tend to have toward artificial representations of human beings, as robots or computer animations, that closely imitate many but not all the features and behaviors of actual human beings.
the dip in positive feelings toward such artificial representations.
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of uncanny valley1
Example Sentences
AI voices, which can convincingly mimic human voices, are “beyond uncanny valley,†said Richie Cartwright, the founder of Fella, a weight loss startup that used one AI product to call pharmacies and ask if they had GLP-1s in stock.
There’s an odd smoothness to the look and feel of the cinematography by Christian Sebaldt, but the uncanny valley phenomenon is welcome when watching bodily destruction unfold.
“I thought, Why are we making something that looks like a toy when these guys can make things that look human? Wouldn’t that be really fun if we went further into the uncanny valley than we’ve ever gone before? And Adrien and Kathy were the perfect people to partner up with on that.â€
Vance hit his usual mark—would-be humor that lands in the dead stillness of the uncanny valley—by telling onlookers that his two young sons ate a combined 14 eggs each morning.
Tom Hanks working with ‘Polar Express’ director Robert Zemeckis in ‘Here’ could leave us in the uncanny valley or get him another Oscar nod.â€
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