The Uncanny Valley Girl

2020-10-11

Author : Stephen W Houser
Release : 2020-10-11
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Book Synopsis The Uncanny Valley Girl by : Stephen W Houser

Download or read book The Uncanny Valley Girl written by Stephen W Houser. This book was released on 2020-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial intelligence. Replicant. Robot. Humanot. When artificial intelligents first entered society, their designers strove to overcome the gap between being human and looking human. But people could always spot even the most human appearing AIs as artificial. Uncanny valley was an engineering term to designate this alienation--this gap--that humans experienced when seeing robot imitations that were somehow off. Existing beyond the divide that separated them from humans. Mirages. Imitations. Fakes. Soon they were rudely labeled humanots by those who came to fear and hate them.

The Uncanny Valley

2022-02-04 Fiction

Author : Erin Cairns
Release : 2022-02-04
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book The Uncanny Valley written by Erin Cairns. This book was released on 2022-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beacon city hovers on the edge of civil unrest as sentient androids and AI networks take homes, jobs, and families. Rebellion leaders on both sides of the near-robot-apocalypse are looking for any excuse to start a war that will decide, once and for all, who the future belongs to. Detective Tyler Shaw couldn’t really give a shit about plastics or their ‘rights’, but when his partner violently self-destructs in the middle of the precinct, suddenly, the whole city is watching— and demanding answers. As his investigation spirals into shadowy conspiracies involving dangerous vigilantes, hackers, drugs, and android trafficking, he discovers a rot so deep it may already be growing in Tyler himself.

The Uncanny Valley in Games and Animation

2014-12-10 Computers

Author : Angela Tinwell
Release : 2014-12-10
Genre : Computers
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Download or read book The Uncanny Valley in Games and Animation written by Angela Tinwell. This book was released on 2014-12-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in technology have enabled animators and video game designers to design increasingly realistic, human-like characters in animation and games. Although it was intended that this increased realism would allow viewers to appreciate the emotional state of characters, research has shown that audiences often have a negative reaction as the human

Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism

2022-11-28 Literary Criticism

Author : Stefan Herbrechter
Release : 2022-11-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism written by Stefan Herbrechter. This book was released on 2022-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and disability studies. The book also traces the historical representations and understanding of posthumanism across time. Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as autobiography, games, art, film, museums, and topics such as climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to name a few. This handbook considers posthumanism’s impact across disciplines and areas of study.

You Play the Girl

2017-08-08 Social Science

Author : Carina Chocano
Release : 2017-08-08
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 96X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book You Play the Girl written by Carina Chocano. This book was released on 2017-08-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner. “With dazzling clarity, [Chocano’s] commentary exposes the subliminal sexism on our pages and screens.”—O, The Oprah Magazine As a kid in the 1970s and 80s, Carina Chocano was confused by the mixed messages all around her that told her who she could be—and who she couldn’t. She grappled with sexed up sidekicks, princesses waiting to be saved, and morally infallible angels who seemed to have no opinions of their own. It wasn’t until she spent five years as a movie critic, and was laid off just after her daughter was born, however, that she really came to understand how the stories the culture tells us about what it means to be a girl limit our lives and shape our destinies. In You Play the Girl, Chocano blends formative personal stories with insightful and emotionally powerful analysis. Moving from Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, from Flashdance to Frozen, from the progressive ’70s through the backlash ’80s, the glib ’90s, and the pornified aughts—and at stops in between—she explains how growing up in the shadow of “the girl” taught her to think about herself and the world and what it means to raise a daughter in the face of these contorted reflections. In the tradition of Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Sontag, Chocano brilliantly shows that our identities are more fluid than we think, and certainly more complex than anything we see on any kind of screen. “If Hollywood’s treatment of women leaves you wanting, you’ll find good, heady company in You Play the Girl.”—Elle

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