The Uncanny Valley

The uncanny valley is a hypothesis that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers, says Wikipedia.

It’s funny, but this woman seems almost robotic in her singing, and I get a little frisson of weird watching her. I give you- Virginia O’Brien.

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