Uncanny Valley

topic on 5 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2020

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Emmons: AI slop triggers a human uncanny valley response
“It's not, it doesn't have maybe emotion and movement, and so we're calling it slop, and it's a natural reaction to we don't, it's we used to talk about it in CGI as the uncanny valley. It's something that feels really close to human, but there's something wron…”
Shane Emmons Nov 4, 2025 ▶ 25:59 Building Trustworthy AI: Navigating the Challenges and Future of Agentic Software with Shane Emmons
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Voice AI Has Passed the Uncanny Valley and Evades Detection
“We're pretty close to someone not being able to detect it at all, and you could say, well, there's an uncanny valley, But I think even now we're up the like back slope of the uncanny valley when it comes to the voice stuff. Like many people will go through a f…”
Evan Ratliff Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 31:17 His AI Voice Clone Went To Therapy, Took Meetings & Attended Family Dinners - w/ Evan Ratliff
STARTUP IDEAS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ries: AI accountability agents will avoid the uncanny valley problem
“I don't think we're gonna have an uncanny valley problem here. I think these things are actually gonna feel very good when it praises you. You're actually gonna feel good. You're gonna want to get it right.”
Eric Ries Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 44:55 The Biggest Startup Opportunities In 2024 | Eric Ries (The Lean Startup)
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Benenson: Digital Avatar Tools Must Be Cartoonish to Be Believable
“If you want to try to represent yourself and you want to have like configurability around that it needs to be kind of cartoonish for it to be believable.”
Fred Benenson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 49:02 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal

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