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Yes, his dolls have hyper-lifelike genitals, but, he says, what his users are looking for, above all else, is a connection. McMullen insists that he is gone out of his solution to avoid the uncanny valley, giving his dolls bigger, rounder eyes and more symmetrical faces than are humanly possible. McMullen faces a unique problem in bringing Harmony to life. Initially the members faces were hidden until they reached 20,000 followers on Twitter. But after confronting the uncanny valley for the primary time, it's clear to me that, right now at least, nothing beats the true thing. I've seen her flub a lip sync and marveled on the exposed wires beneath her wig, however, for me at the least, the feeling was unavoidable. The term -- coined by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in a 1970 paper about human reactions to lifelike robots -- describes that eerie feeling we get after we encounter an synthetic human that comes near but does not quite nail the whole "being human" factor. You compulsively give it a glance any time you get a new message or notification - and sometimes as an unintentional response to boredom or downtime. |
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发表于 2024-9-16 05:02