Macaques are creeped out by cyber-selves

摘要

It turns out monkeys are as creeped out by their CCI counterparts as we are. Show them a monkey face that's uncannily life-like and they look away. This might mean that there is an evolutionary explanation for our disgust of non-humans who seem too real.rnIn the 1970s, Japanese roboticistrnMasahiro Mori noticed that, although we like robots that have some human features, we start to find them eerie when they look too real. He called this dip in humanoid popularity the "uncanny valley". Since then, the response has been blamed for the unpopularity of some CCI films with realistic characters, and it is touted as the reason Pixar stuck to characters with cartoonish features.