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offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2008-03-10 01:39 [#02183607]
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i wrote this article on the uncanny valley, a concept
concerning the relationship between humans and
robotic-humanoids, and thought it some people here might be
interested in it.

comments/suggestions all welcome.


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offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-03-10 02:38 [#02183616]
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Excuse me, but.. what are you studying?

Your example with getting angry with the shoe may be
illustrative, but in most cases it will be untrue; moderate
it.

Where did you get the "god hypothesis" from? Is it based on
anything but "sounding cool?" It doesn't seem like a
feasible explanation, and it certainly forgets the possible
original intentions of the subject. "Unconscious" god
complexes have to be proved, not conjured up by some Emo
Magician.

The robot judged as robot isn't "an unfamiliar class to
begin with," but rather a familiar class (you know what a
robot is) wherein you don't sense "uncannyness"
because "it is as it should be;" it is a robot that looks
like a robot and not a human that looks dead.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2008-03-10 11:11 [#02183719]
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well, this is for a little side class im taking, cyborg
societies.

the god hypoethsis: yeah, it is more of an after thought. if
youd read the whole thing you would have seen its hardly the
crux of the paper and that that one sentence is about all i
say about it.

and in terms of the uncanny, the robot is an unfamiliar
subject. if youre looking at it in strictly rational terms,
yes, the unhuman-like robot is "as it should be," but the
uncanny is more in relation to the emotions. we, as a
society, do not have emotional attachments to robots like we
do people, housing, or anything we encounter in everyday
life - an encounter with a robot which is approaching
human-likeness is a new experience. possibly in the future,
if/when robots become part of mainstream society, we will
have view the robots as familiar, but this is a phenomenon i
address in the final section of the article.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2008-03-10 11:15 [#02183721]
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oh, and i do admit, this is a highly speculative hypothesis
- there has been very little experimental work done on the
uncanny valley one way or the other. part of that is why i
have the videos, and, once the article is posted on its
final destination, the cyborg database, the cumulative test
results - to acquire some kind of experimental data so as to
either give credence to the theory or to dispel it.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2008-03-10 11:16 [#02183722]
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oops, its cyborgdb.org, not .com.


 


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