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AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Re: AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Post by whimsicalism »

powvans wrote: post #26
abxyz wrote: post #13

Setting aside the uncanny valley, my understanding is that people like seeing people not because they look like people but because it conveys effort and investment on the part of another human being. We want to feel like we're worth someone else's time, in every context. We don't like to interact with people just because that's the only way we can interact but because humans are human. AI avatars are the exact opposi…

Spot on. There's something instinctual about this. My kids (13,10,8) all love making art. When I show them AI tools that they could use to generate art or riff on existing art, they are actively opposed. They tell me that AI art is not real art, that AI tools for doing this sort of thing are gross, and they want nothing to do with it. As a technologist I think "omg this is so cool" and it has been genuinely surprisin…

its because they are exposed to the internet and left-leaning culture from their schools, i highly doubt that is their first exposure reaction.

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Post by bpt3 »

isawczuk wrote: post #24
bigyabai wrote: post #2

A16Z should rebrand as a ballistics company with the rate they've been shooting themselves in the foot recently.

Can you explain these statement? I'm probably out of the loop.

Look up what they said about NFTs and web 3.0 in general for starters.

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Post by NewJazz »

bpt3 wrote: post #29

When can we escape a16z ramming worse than useless concepts down our throats and telling us how great they are in a sanctimonious fashion? That will be the greatest advancement of the millennium for humankind.

Don't go on HN. This is pretty much the only place that gives this guy attention from what I've seen.

Re: AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Post by NewJazz »

asdfgjkl wrote: post #22

So it's another case of "let's make a solution for nonexisting problem" in the world of AI? We all hear promises of how AI will save the world and bring about technological innovation and solutions for hard problems, and what we get is replacement for a job that can be done much cheaper by a human being. I am getting major crypto vibes here, promises of greatness and bringing nothing but unnecessary fluff.

What kind of ai might change your mind?

Re: AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Post by jsheard »

bpt3 wrote: post #32
isawczuk wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain these statement? I'm probably out of the loop.

Look up what they said about NFTs and web 3.0 in general for starters.

They're still ride-or-die on crypto to this day, like that last soldier who never found out the war ended.

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Post by imaginationra »

I as an artist will be happy to see all these useless talking head "content creators" get replaced by AI Avatars-

So then only real artists and ai will remain- these "content creator" human avatar golems were always transitory anyway- software can chase algo's/trends better than any human so good riddance-

Re: AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley

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Post by torginus »

This is just a personal preference thing - but I dislike any attempts at injecting artificial personhood - if they make an agentic personal assistant or whatever, I don't want to think of it as a person but a rather sophisticated tool. My phone uses AI to retouch the pictures it takes with its camera, but I don't have to exchange pleasantries with iPhone Clippy for it to do its thing - it just pretty much does.

I don't want artificial buddies, or servants or whatever except maybe in video games.

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