Why the Uncanny Valley Doesn't Really Matter

malachiorion writes "Are humanoid bots and CGI characters still crawling their way out of the Uncanny Valley? Maybe, but maybe it doesn't matter. Here's a cold, hard look at a popular robotics theory that might have no legs to stand on, android or otherwise. It's everything that seems wrong and irrelevant about the Uncanny Valley that I wasn't able to fit into this month's Popular Mechanics cover story on social bots."

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Re:Dogs hate cats. Dolphins hate sharks.

[mewsenews]

Are sharks and dolphins friendly after becoming acquained in a controlled environment? I'll leave that as an experiment up to the user.

you owe me 11 replacement dolphins

Re:Dogs hate cats. Dolphins hate sharks.

[Arancaytar]

Careful. Dolphins are highly intelligent and sharks are death with fins. If they *do* become friendly, you're looking at Deep Blue Sea.

(Though the opportunity of Samuel L Jackson being tired of these motherfucking sharks and dolphins on this motherfucking marine biology lab is too good to pass up.)

Re:when lewis and clark

[93,000]

I'm a normal American of Scandinavian descent, and I speak perfect Klingon. I randomly walk up to people in the mall and start speaking it.

Their minds are so blown by how perfect my Klingon is that they pretty much always grab their children and walk away really, really fast.