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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

From the Vault: Into the Uncanny Valley

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The far side of the uncanny valley rises steeply, assaulting our psyche as our artificial human likenesses creep ever closer toward perfection. But what happens when we actually emerge on the other side? What happens to human society when video footage is no longer the gold standard? Robert and Joe investigate. (Originally published April 4, 2017)

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1:35.0

Hey, welcome to Stuff To Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.

1:43.0

And I'm Joe McCormick, and it is time to enter the vault.

1:46.0

Because it is Saturday, time to go into the archives for an old episode of Stuff To Blow Your Mind, this time we wanted to revisit our original exploration of the Uncanny Valley.

1:57.0

This was a two-part episode. Part one was originally published April 4th, 2017.

2:02.0

I think back on this episode, a good bit, actually.

2:05.0

I guess I encounter a lot of strange, almost, their simulations of the human likeness.

2:10.0

Yeah, this one is one that I think back to a lot as well, just because you're always encountering some imperfect digital recreations of a human likeness.

2:24.0

And then we have to sort out how we feel about it, but also how we've perhaps been conditioned to feel about it just by knowing about the idea of the Uncanny Valley.

2:33.0

So yeah, this is going to the first of two episodes. This episode is into the Uncanny Valley, originally published April 4th, 2017.

2:41.0

And then in the subsequent episode, we are going to go beyond the Uncanny Valley.

2:47.0

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