Comment by kozikow
2 years ago
It's funny because now the OpenAI keynote feels like it's emulating the Google keynotes from 5 years ago.
Google Keynote feels like it's emulating the Apple keynote from 5 years ago.
And the Apple keynote looks like robots just out of an uncanny valley pretending to be humans - just like keynotes might look in 5 years, but actually made by AI. Apple is always ahead of the curve in keynote trends.
You know those memes where AI keeps escalating a theme to more extreme levels with each request?
That's what Apple keynotes feel like now. It seems like each year, they're trying to make their presentations even more essentially 'Apple.' They crossed the uncanny valley a long time ago.
"make it feel more like a hospital"
To me it feels more like a cult. Wear this kind of shoes and clothing. Make these hand gestures, talk that way. They look and sound fake, over processed and living in their own bubble detached from the rest of the world.
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I hadn’t thought about it until just now, but the most recent Apple events really are the closest real-person thing I’ve ever seen to some of the “good” computer generated photorealistic (kinda…) humans “reading” with text-to-speech that I’ve seen.
It’s the stillness between “beats” that does it, I think, and the very-constrained and repetitive motion.
Is there such a concept as a “reverse uncanny valley”??
Where humans behave so awkwardly that they seem artificial but are just not quite close enough…
If so, Apple have totally nailed the reverse uncanny valley!
Hmm. Like the "NPC fetish" stuff that was going around for a brief minute?
The more I think about this the more it rings true...