Laura Barbosa

"Uncanny Valley" 2008 | Acrylics and Ink on Stretched Canvas | Size = 24" X 36"

WHAT IS THE UNCANNY VALLEY?

The Uncanny Valley is a hypothesis that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost, but not entirely, like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The valley in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's lifelikeness.

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