In chapters 3, 4, and 5, Chu follows up on other sites of the uncanny, including war trauma, robots (and what Masahiro Mori calls the "
uncanny valley"), and the pent-up frustration and rage glossed as "han" in Korean, all of which are dependent on lyrical flights to "literalize" their fantastic topographies.
Chu, Seo-Young. Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation
This short essay was first published in The Chinati Foundation Newsletter #15, in October 2010, and appears in
Uncanny Valley under the section titled "Four Easy Pieces."
Another easy piece
If yes, then you've probably been a visitor to what's called the "
uncanny valley".
Your Brain On Androids
The
uncanny valley, a phrase coined by a Japanese researcher nearly three decades ago, describes that disquieting feeling that occurs when viewers look at representations designed to be as human-like as possible - whether computer animations or androids - but somehow fall short.
Just like humans, monkeys too fall into the 'uncanny valley'
The concern that people would be duped by Google's new feature underscores the urgency for society to determine what kind of relationship it wants with its artificial aids as technology companies get closer to traversing the so-called
uncanny valley. That's a term used to describe the gulf between a robot or software that has just enough imperfections to raise skepticism and another that's indistinguishable from a human.
Do you want to know you are talking to an algorithm?
uncanny valley: a psychological concept that describes the feelings of unease or revulsion that people tend to have toward artificial representations of human beings, as robots or computer animations, that closely imitate many but not all the features and behaviors of actual human beings.
'Slay,' 'Dad Bod,' 'Man Bun' And 'Dabbing' Are Newest Words
Virtual reality technologists have long warned of the dangers of the "
uncanny valley" -- a theory that, the more perfectly an image resembles a real being, the more the audience will notice the imperfections.
Holograms go mainstream, with future full of possibility
The result is disturbing, at times evoking the
uncanny valley, and a biting satire of modern Chinese society.
The Art Shelf
The industry term "
uncanny valley" describes the disturbing effect of an animation that looks all too human but nevertheless lacks life--like a mobile corpse.
Lost in Space: JOHN KELSEY ON TIM BURTON'S ALICE IN WONDERLAND
No one has figured out how to bridge what computer scientists term the "
uncanny valley" - the wide gap we sense between ourselves and imitations of ourselves.
These are not the robots we were promised
But as games become more self-consciously cinematic, and as CGI inches ever closer to the
uncanny valley, their so-called "ludonarrative dissonance" is only going to become all the more glaring in turn.
2012: The Year of Horrible Video Game Endings
"
Uncanny Valley" is a collection of poems from experienced poet Jon Woodward as he presents a collection of poetry that delves into our culture and its mythology and brings out things we never questioned.
The Poetry Shelf
Far from attempting to perfectly replicate life - which can sometimes result in mannequin-esque limbs that drag the wearer several levels down into the
Uncanny Valley - many cutting-edge prosthetics are redesigning legs and arms from the ground up.
Fastest Man On Earth An Amputee? The Remarkable Promise Of Next-Generation Prosthetics
The minute you start hitting photorealism, you hit the
uncanny valley when you push the performances beyond what the real animal could do.
Interview with the director and stars of 'The Lion King'
Other films took the image of horrific corpses in different directions: dummies, puppets, mummies, waxworks--figures inhabiting the
uncanny valley between human beings and fantastic shapes.
The Horror of War and the Thrill of Horror