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AI in Medicine / Applied AI / Robotics / Uncanny Valley March 24, 2022
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 […]
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The robotics team had a great idea. Why not use self-driving car technology for a task that was essentially easier, and could make money on the way to autonomous nirvana? And, as often happens, they were pitching me for investment. A solid and practical team, I liked these guys for their clever concept: to build self-driving (“robot”) industrial […]