What will the Uncanny Valley look like in 10 years? What will the kids that have grown up with things that we find "creepy", think about those things? These questions are worth asking yourself.
I think that this "Uncanny Valley" will slowly start to move further towards the right on the curve, the more we get used to the things that we find "creepy" and "scary". This will mostly be caused by the kids that grow up will have become more familiar and more knowledged about robotics from a young age. For example, kids nowadays have become so much more laid back about violence in TV and videogames. If you would have shown a kid, from 40 years back, what kids play with these days, I think they would freak out. But none of the kids today, freak out about what they see on TV. This will just keep progressing.
But what about the development of robots for use in everyday life? How are we going to handle (by this I mean how they look and act) those robots if we can't handle those in movies now? This is also going to be changed over time. The more and more robots become part of our lives, the more we will start to see them as something normal and look at them as we look at our smartphones today ( not literally look at them, but more like what they are to us). And if the computer industry keeps making the animations look more and more like real humans, we will always have this problem. How are we then gonna be able to see the difference between a non-human and a human?
But can this "Uncanny Valley" be used on humans too? What about extreme plastic surgery? If you think about it, some people actually look less like a human, than the geminoid dk robot. And lets face it, a lot of people think those people are creepy. So how long time before a new trend pops up, that will lead us further towards the valley? Who knows, it could be tomorrow that some scientist discovers an artificial brain, or eyes. Let's just hope Will Smith stays around for a while if those robots start to attack the human-kind.
8 comments:
I totally agree with you on this. These questions are very helpful and important when the next generation of adolescents appear. This will definitely be concerning technology and human values as technology may control the future of the younger generation. It is up to us as the older and wiser generation to inform and prepare them for possible situations you described.
I don't agree with the prediction that the uncanny valley will dissolve and begin to move right. The whole idea behind the uncanny valley is an innate aversion to deception. If the children of the next generation grow up with perfect replicas of humans then the uncanny valley doesn't apply since they would not understand the difference between a real human and an artificial one. It only applies when you can understand that one is fake. For example, children's dolls are fun to play with but when they become more realistic like porcelain dolls then they become eerie and are difficult to be around. The other side of the uncanny valley, to me, is not a chronological point, but rather what happens when something non-human becomes indistinguishable from a real one.
I think this is a very interesting view and I agree with you on some points and do not necessarily disagree with others but have simple questions for them. I agree that the future generations are going to become more "numb" so to speak to the changes in technology and maybe not even realize what is happening in front of them. The idea of the iPhone is amazing to older generations because they never had anything close to it but for our generation we are almost expecting something as such because of what we have around us and that is concerning. What I question about this is the further movement to the right of the uncanny valley. I believe at some point, creators of animation will step back and say there is an art to animation and the beauty of it being not human actors. If animation continues to progress to almost real life humans, it will lose its art altogether.
I agree with you in the sense that our new likeness to things are actually the grosser of human likeness. I think of shows like The Walking Dead or movies like World War Z. People today love zombies! So it seems like zombies being at the lowest point in the uncanny valley could change. But I do not necessarily agree that the Uncanny Valley will totally dissolve. I just think that the level of "human likeness" in the valley will change.
I agree with you in the sense that our new likeness to things are actually the grosser of human likeness. I think of shows like The Walking Dead or movies like World War Z. People today love zombies! So it seems like zombies being at the lowest point in the uncanny valley could change. But I do not necessarily agree that the Uncanny Valley will totally dissolve. I just think that the level of "human likeness" in the valley will change.
I completely agree with this blog. Kids have evolved and will keep evolving over the next centuries. If robots were made and kids saw them everyday it would be creepy and scary at first, but after about two generations kids will grow up around robots just like we have grown up around video games and tv so this is completely true.
I agree that this topic is based on conditioning. Younger generations will easily accept newer humanoid robotics, while the older generation will spite it. In 10 years, we will be close to finding out if the uncanny valley holds true in that we will be accepting of robots that are similar to us. (The upward trend after the fall.)
I agree that this topic is based on conditioning. Younger generations will easily accept newer humanoid robotics, while the older generation will spite it. In 10 years, we will be close to finding out if the uncanny valley holds true in that we will be accepting of robots that are similar to us. (The upward trend after the fall.)
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