I understand the creeped out feeling. I got it the first time I saw that Japanese robot, Actroid – F.
I guess my question is WHY would a robot have to ‘look’ like a person? There’s no reason why it has to, IMHO.
Some people like their sexbots to look like movie stars but you are right there is no reason a sexbot can’t look like a squid or a sunflower or whatever else, it’s just that much more creepy.
I have the same reaction when I see Anjelina Jolie.
We have a winner!
Last fall, Jolie was on the cover of Vanity Fair. I thought it was their Halloween issue…
I’ll be ‘doin’ a squid or a tree or a sunflower LONG before that Actroid-F babe comes into my house!
That all supposes I would ever have a sexbot anyway, which isn’t likely in my mind.
I see dead people. I think that’s all there is to it.
The author seems unaware that Pixar made films with humans after Tin Toy.
Wasn’t Billy the name of the neighbor in Toy Story that melted toys with a magnifying glass and amputated various parts to re-arrange them?
No, that was Sid — the same Sid who grew up to drive a garbage truck in Toy Story 3.
You don’t know your Toy Story trivia.
It was in the form of a question, but I bow to your superior knowledge.
Leland you nailed it. If you remember the first time you saw that movie, there is the same feeling of revulsion that you experience when you interact with these robots. In the movie for a moment you are at ease with the new characters that appear. Then you abruptly realize their true form. Your mind was momentarily tricked. In that moment just like an encounter with the robots, a primal instinct is triggered that says; “You have been tricked at the deepest level! You are in danger, you may not survive, it may be too late…RUN.
I remember the trams at the airport had a man’s voice telling people to get inside because the doors were closing. People were offended. So, they put in a roboticized voice and that went over better. I think they have a sultry feminine voice now, and that seems OK, too.
People don’t like a male voice telling them what to do, or a prim female voice. I guess it’s a power relationship. Anyway, seemed a little germane to the topic, so I thought I’d bring it up.
If they’d seen the episode of Star Trek TOS, “Tomorrow is Yesterday”,where the ‘robotic’ computer voice gets replaced with a ‘sultry’ voice, they would have known this!
(did I just channel my inner geek? )
Researchers still aren’t sure why it creeps us out.
I think it’s because we’re comfortable with obvious inanimate human imitations, and we’re comfortable with obvious healthy humans, but when we come across things that are close to normal human, but not quite there, it kicks in the instinctive fear reflex we have of diseased people. Our instincts say: “It looks human, but not like a normal human, is its condition contagious?”
Reese Witherspoon has this effect with me. There is just somethign off with her appearance.
I understand the creeped out feeling. I got it the first time I saw that Japanese robot, Actroid – F.
I guess my question is WHY would a robot have to ‘look’ like a person? There’s no reason why it has to, IMHO.
Some people like their sexbots to look like movie stars but you are right there is no reason a sexbot can’t look like a squid or a sunflower or whatever else, it’s just that much more creepy.
I have the same reaction when I see Anjelina Jolie.
We have a winner!
Last fall, Jolie was on the cover of Vanity Fair. I thought it was their Halloween issue…
http://amygrindhouse.com/angelina-jolie-vanity-fair-cover-october-2011.html/angelina-jolie-vanity-fair-cover-october-2011
I’ll be ‘doin’ a squid or a tree or a sunflower LONG before that Actroid-F babe comes into my house!
That all supposes I would ever have a sexbot anyway, which isn’t likely in my mind.
I see dead people. I think that’s all there is to it.
The author seems unaware that Pixar made films with humans after Tin Toy.
Wasn’t Billy the name of the neighbor in Toy Story that melted toys with a magnifying glass and amputated various parts to re-arrange them?
No, that was Sid — the same Sid who grew up to drive a garbage truck in Toy Story 3.
You don’t know your Toy Story trivia.
It was in the form of a question, but I bow to your superior knowledge.
Leland you nailed it. If you remember the first time you saw that movie, there is the same feeling of revulsion that you experience when you interact with these robots. In the movie for a moment you are at ease with the new characters that appear. Then you abruptly realize their true form. Your mind was momentarily tricked. In that moment just like an encounter with the robots, a primal instinct is triggered that says; “You have been tricked at the deepest level! You are in danger, you may not survive, it may be too late…RUN.
I remember the trams at the airport had a man’s voice telling people to get inside because the doors were closing. People were offended. So, they put in a roboticized voice and that went over better. I think they have a sultry feminine voice now, and that seems OK, too.
People don’t like a male voice telling them what to do, or a prim female voice. I guess it’s a power relationship. Anyway, seemed a little germane to the topic, so I thought I’d bring it up.
If they’d seen the episode of Star Trek TOS, “Tomorrow is Yesterday”,where the ‘robotic’ computer voice gets replaced with a ‘sultry’ voice, they would have known this!
(did I just channel my inner geek? )
Researchers still aren’t sure why it creeps us out.
I think it’s because we’re comfortable with obvious inanimate human imitations, and we’re comfortable with obvious healthy humans, but when we come across things that are close to normal human, but not quite there, it kicks in the instinctive fear reflex we have of diseased people. Our instincts say: “It looks human, but not like a normal human, is its condition contagious?”
Reese Witherspoon has this effect with me. There is just somethign off with her appearance.