The uncanny valley started as a futurists fear about the future of robotics. But we have seen multiple instances of unsettling imagery in CGI that has us employing the uncanny hypothesis. There is also some skepticism about whether this phenomenon is even real. We explore the various suggestions about what accounts for the uncanny valley, whether it is real, and what behaviorism might contribute to understanding it.

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Links:

1. https://theconversation.com/uncanny-valley-why-we-find-human-like-robots-and-dolls-so-creepy-50268
2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027715300640
3. https://youtu.be/CNdAIPoh8a4
4. https://youtu.be/VmgS2JltwX4
5. https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/unexplained-phenomena/uncanny-valley.htm
6. https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-uncanny-valley
7. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ai-uncanny-valley?loggedin=true&rnd=1700967450205
8. https://gizmodo.com/is-the-uncanny-valley-pseudoscience-5454086

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