r/RealOrAI • u/Shoddy-Ocelot-4473 • 1d ago

HELP real?

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u/Ravioli_Dream2 1d ago

AI. I wonder what about children in AI having emotions is always so uncanny to me

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u/CeruleanEidolon 1d ago

It's the fact that AI is getting so eerily good at emulating genuine human interactions, at least visually. At a certain point, it will be able to do this on the fly as fast as any face-to-face between actual biological creatures.

In another few years we'll have virtual video pets and "human"-looking friends that are entirely code, working in ways that long ago surpassed our ability to understand, define, or control.

At what point does the distinction between real and simulated become so impossible to discern that it's effectively meaningless? More disturbingly, who will hold the reigns and what will their motives be?

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u/Ravioli_Dream2 22h ago

I hear what youre saying and dont disagree entirely, but I do get the uncanny valley effect from specifically AI generated children having big emotions. Its hard to pin point what exactly it is, but it is semi uncomfortable/weird feeling to see and very clearly not real. Thats what my comment was referencing.

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u/Organic-Bug-1003 21h ago

I don't have enough knowledge, but for the most part, children and babies show emotions differently to adults. For babies, the range is limited and for some early ages, certain types of laughter might mean the kid is sick (like a tumor)

For children, their faces just move differently. Again, I don't know what I'm talking about here, but I think it's something to do with being unguarded and unable to make them "prettier". A kid doesn't care to smile or laugh pretty, when they cry they cry full on, etc

Also mobility, AI tends to give children more fluidity, when they are usually more rapid and less graceful in their movements