Aaron Parecki

Is it just me or is the author using the term "Uncanny Valley" completely wrong? Ignoring the silly Pixar story, I still don't understand how voice recognition (or more accurately, speech recognition) is currently in the uncanny valley.

You know when your GPS says "recalculating" in a condescending voice? That's the uncanny valley of text-to-speech.

@holman @oscargodson I haven't actually heard of the term being used like that. I've only heard it in this context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

@holman @oscargodson

@holman It's from a 1970 paper by a Japanese roboticist http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/an-uncanny-mind-masahiro-mori-on-the-uncanny-valley http://web.archive.org/web/20110313073609/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110310jk.html

@holman but the concept of the uncanny valley is way older than that

@holman While I agree with your points, that's not really the meaning of "uncanny valley." And what's with the Pixar story??

@ungoldman y!

@maxticket Maybe an indicator that a new version is available or that a new feature was launched rather than actually interrupting the app

@maxticket I think the problem is that I often don't open an app until I need it, so anything that gets in the way of me doing the thing is annoying.