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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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