The Uncanny Valley Is Wrong

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Thnk about the way they move: - Animations move very expressively. - Humans are less animated, but they have the fundamental expressive nature that you can understand. - These "uncanny" animations and robots move strangely or creepily. Is their movement really a mix of animation and humans? Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/user?u=849925 Twitter- https://twitter.com/JesseAgarYT Time Stamps 00:00 Intro 00:48 Uncanny Valley “basics” 2:08 “Human Likeness” is too broad 4:46 Cherry Picking 7:22 Summary of what’s wrong 8:00 What’s right 8:47 What’s actually going on Sources The ambiguity of “human likeness” https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00126/full Morphs where it gets creepy in the middle https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241217609_Subjective_Ratings_of_Robot_Video_Clips_for_Human_Likeness_Familiarity_and_Eeriness_An_Exploration_of_the_Uncanny_Valley Demonstrating the uncanny valley isn’t simply based on likeness http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.472.2518&rep=rep1&type=pdf Seeing Faces (patterns on left side of brain were the same for faces and non faces. But the right side of brain was different for faces or non faces. Seems the left side of the brain goes “FACE!” then the right side of the brain goes “OK, let’s work this out”)https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2011.1784 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6290235/ https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2651179 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/233387v1.full The study with all those images https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027715300640 Original uncanny valley paper https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/the-uncanny-valley