Robotics professor Masahiro Mori named this phenomenon the “uncanny valley” in 1970: Models that look like human faces but are a bit off bring fear and disgust to many observers. This effect ...

Wikipedia says “The uncanny valley hypothesis predicts that an entity ... seeing [Automaton Robotics]’ hand and forearm move in almost human fashion is a bit on the disturbing side.

And it spent a lot of time repeating my points back to me in an agreeable fashion — like it was practicing ... too. It’s uncanny enough having a complex text conversation with something ...