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The Uncanny Valley

Spooked? In our first episode of The Science of YouTube, we take a ride down into the Uncanny Valley and explore that familiar-yet-different feeling  
 
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VinceInHD (4 days ago) Show Hide
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My gosh the ones on near the bottom of the valley were CREEPY!
loperspest (1 week ago) Show Hide
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The faces of gynoids have gotten much better over the years, and some recent ones are marginally pleasant, even in motion. However, what really gives the game away, for me anyway, is the hands. They are stiff and practically motionless, almost like muppet hands, with thick fingers and none of the delicate graceful dance of a comparable woman's hands.
baycrum267 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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1:11 seems better to me and kinda cute.Whats the name of that one
porkyminch01 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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fear of death? fear the hell, this robots does not look scary some ones just look ugly, corpses dont look that ugly, only if they are ugly dead people from puerto rico
kstanchanohgod (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Robot at the beginning just looks like a Japanese woman with Down Syndrome.
porkyminch01 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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yeha, the guy that made the video just hate japanese people because he uses a Mac and a play station 3
Parkerkun (1 week ago) Show Hide
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Wait what?
Elusareth (1 month ago) Show Hide
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A lot of these examples aren't really that good. They sort of go from 'doesnt look human at all' to 'pretty close to lifelike' and never really hit the nasty place where they intersect. The thing from the 'fantastic hey hey hey' video looks creepier than anything here. Some ventriloquist dummies also fit the mold pretty well.
baycrum267 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Agreed.
Eikinkloster (1 month ago) Show Hide
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They do :-) Only that man made machines have simpler souls than us. For the time being.

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