Barney Pell

Most of us think that improving quality or capability of an AI system makes it incrementally (or at least monotonically) better for the users.   However, just like computer graphics and robotics, there can be an uncanny valley for AI systems.  As artificial faces get more realistic, people are happier, but there is an uncanny valley where faces get to a point that is close to realistic but not…quite. Faces look “eerie” or […]