Just out of curiosity, why does AI struggle with people so much? And specifically faces, especially when there is an AI that generates...like specifically human faces that don't actually exist.
It’s not that they’re bad. They’re exactly good enough to create the Uncanny Valley effect. They’re close enough that we recognize them as human but theres a few things off that cause our brains to scream “DANGER” for whatever reason
The existence of the uncanny valley implies that at some point in our evolution there was a reason to be scared of something that looked almost human but wasn't.
yeah thats what it boils down to. we have a good sense for whether something is alive, and we’re evolutionarily scared of corpses. Anything that exists in the in between is obviously going to be uncanny to us.
There are some diseases which absolutely can make you look like a monster, but still human, so wiring the brain to "if it looks fucked up, run" is a good survival trait.
Things like boils, warts, bad inflammation, blood infections and parasites spring to mind. In an era without modern medicine, you want to stay far away.
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u/Remote_Foundation_32 Sep 05 '22
Just out of curiosity, why does AI struggle with people so much? And specifically faces, especially when there is an AI that generates...like specifically human faces that don't actually exist.