Why is the uncanny valley so unsettling? | QI – BBC

what’s the most unsettling thing that you can think of un uncanny valley uncanny valley exactly where we are heading what can you tell me about uncanny Valle The Uncanny Valley is like when dos look too real so I think if a do doesn’t look like a do it’s creepy and you can your brain goes that’s not really a do that’s so basically when robots begin to look more humanlike so when they’ve got arms and legs and their face and so on for a while we empathize with the more but then when they reach a stage where they’re sort of almost um but not quite human we’re suddenly repulsed by weep yeah so there was a Japanese roboticist called Masahiro Mori in 1970 and he dubbed it bkim notani and it means the valley of eeriness or exactly what you said The Uncanny Valley so you can see here look you can see a robot and we quite like it and then it becomes a bit more human and then we think it’s rather sort of marvelous and then there’s just a moment when it’s just a bit too creepy and then we don’t like it at all but if we could make it look really human then we would start like it again is that why I’m always settled when never I work where them G make you’re quite right have you seen a program called is it cake oh yes yes oh yeah they have a thing like a car tire and then they have a cake that looks like a car tire which one’s a cake and you have to get gu from a distance yeah and the idea is that we sometimes we find it a bit repulsive because mainly we’re not supposed to eat things um that they represent so they represent toilet paper or dogs or or whatever and there is a thing about us being repulsed uh by an object that’s that’s fine isn’t it that’s that’s not hit The Uncanny valy no wait a minute so was sh is the thing about us being repulsed by certain things if you brought a brand new toilet brush into the kitchen never been used and you suddenly started stirring the soup with it right even though it’s never been used it’s just a piece of plastic it’s absolutely fine that’s why people don’t like sex toys in the dishwasher in Sharing in a flat share they get a bit funny about

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  2. يااخوني ياملسمين هل باقي انسانيه وّالَلَه ماتكلمتَ الَا من جوّع وًّمَنَ ضَيَقَ الَحَالَ انَا وًّامَيَ وًّاخَوًّتَيَ تَشَرَدَنَا مَنَ بَيَوًّتَنَا بَسَبَبَ الَحَرَبَ نَحَنَ فَيَ حَالَهَ لَايَعَلَمَ بَهَا الَا الَلَهَ حَسَبَنَا الَلَهَ وًّنَعَمَ الَوكيَلَ فَيَ مَنَ اوًّصَلَنَا الَى هَاذا الَحَالَ 💔💔وًّالَلَهَ الَعَظَيَمَ مَا كتَبَتَ هَذا الَمَنَاشَدَهَ غَيَرَ مَنَ الَضَيَقَ وّالَفَقَر يَاعَالَمَ حَسَوّا فَيَنَا ارَجَوّكمَ وّالَلَهَ الَعَظَيَمَ رَبَ الَعَرَشَ الَعَظَيَمَ انَه الَاكلَ مَا فَيَ عَنَدَيَ بَالَبَيَتَ وًّالَلَهَ يَا اخَوّانَيَ انَهَ اخَوًّنَيَ بَقَعَدَوًّ بَالَيَوًّمَيَنَ مَافَى اكلَ وًّالَلَهَ وًّضَعَنَا كثَيَرَ صَعَبَ نَحَنَ 4 نَفَرَ دَاخَلَ الَبَيَتَ وًّابَيَ مَتَوًّفَيَ وًّلَا يَوًّجَدَ مَنَ يَعَوًّلَ عَلَيَنَا وًّسَاكنَيَنَ فَيَ بَيَتَ اجَارَ لَانَسَتَطَيَعَ دَفَعَ الَاجَارَ الَلَيَ بَاقَيَ عَلَيَنَا ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' اخي اول كلامي انا اقسم بالله على كتاب الله اني لااكذب عليك ولا انصب ولا احتال اني بنت يمنيه نازحين من الحرب انا واسرتي بيننا ایت الشهرب 14 الف يمني والان علينا 42 الف حق 3 شهور وصاحب البيت من الناس الي ماترحم والله يا اخي انه يجي كل يوم يبهدلنا ويتكلم علينا ويريد من البيت للشارع لانناماقدرنا ندفعله الأجار شافونا الجيران نبكي ورجعو تكلمو الجيران ومهلنالاخره الأسبوع معادفعنا له حلف يمين بالله هذا بيخرجنا إلى الشارع رحمه واحنا. بلادنا بسبب هذا الحرب ولانجد قوت يومنا وعايشين اناوامي واخوتي سفار والدنا متوفي الله يرحمه ومامعنا أحد في هذا الدنيا جاانبنا في هذه الظروف القاسيه اخوتي الصغار خرجو للشارع وشافو الجيران ياكلو واوقفو عند بابهم لجل يعطوهم ولو كسره خبز والله الذي له ملك السموات والارض انهم غلفو الباب وطردوهم ورجعو یبکو ایموتو من الجوع ما احد رحمهم وعطلة ردها لقمت عیش والان لوما احدنا ساعدنا في إيكيلو دقيق اقسم بالله انموت من الجوع فيا اخي انا دخيله على الله ثم عليك واريد منك المساعده لوجه الله انشدك بالله تحب الخير واتساعدني ولو ب 500 ريال يمني مع تراسلي واتساب على هذا الرقم 00967716799339 اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولاتتاخر وايعوضك الله بكل خير اخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدنا وأنقذنا قبل أن يطردونا في الشارع تتبهدل أو نموت من الجوع وانا واسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره على مساعد لاتتاخر علينا وجزاك الله خيراً!؛!؛؟؟؛:؛!؛:':؛!! ~«» ٪♡♡♡♡🎉😢😢😢😢😢😢…….,,"""""🎉❤❤🎉❤❤❤🎉😢🍂:🍂:🍂:❤❤😢😢ث..ض…… 😊..ض………

  4. Thought, could there have once been a evolutionary advantage to being scared of something that looked almost human, but wasn't?

  7. I know I’m not alone here but I’ve never experienced the uncanny valley feeling. 🤷‍♂️ In addition, the originator of the term saw it as more of a thought experiment than a scientific hypothesis.

    And while I don’t doubt that some human-like things creep out some people there’s no consistent pattern about what those things look like. For example, I have read that rag and Barbie dolls give some people the uncanny valley feeling. I don’t doubt that they feel that way but the fact that millions of children play with those dolls shows that it can’t be universal.

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