Upending the Uncanny Valley
Abstract
Although robotics researchers commonly contend that robots should not look too humanlike, many artforms have successfully depicted people and have come to be accepted as great and important works, with examples such as Rodin's Thinker, Mary Cassat's infants, and Disney's Abe Lincoln simulacrum. Extending this tradition to intelligent robotics, the authors have depicted late sci-fi writer Philip K Dick with an autonomous, intelligent android. In doing so, the authors aspire to bring robotic systems up to the level of great art, while using the technology as a mirror for examining human nature in social AI development and cognitive science experiments.
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Hanson et al. "Upending the Uncanny Valley." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005.Markdown
[Hanson et al. "Upending the Uncanny Valley." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2005/hanson2005aaai-upending/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{hanson2005aaai-upending,
title = {{Upending the Uncanny Valley}},
author = {Hanson, David and Olney, Andrew and Prilliman, Steve and Mathews, Eric and Zielke, Marge and Hammons, Derek and Fernandez, Raul and Stephanou, Harry E.},
booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2005},
pages = {1728-1729},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2005/hanson2005aaai-upending/}
}