Re:The Challenges of Animal Translation
by lacker on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:55AM
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In giving such persuasively nonhuman animals human personalities and thoughts, the film created a kind of cognitive dissonance. It had been easier to imagine the interiority of the stylized beasts in the original film.
This sounds like the "uncanny valley", but for talking animals. A talking cartoon animal is just a cartoon. A talking animal that looks realistic is creepy.
Re:The Challenges of Animal Translation
by erichahn on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:08AM
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"Denise Herzing, the founder and research director of the nonprofit Wild Dolphin Project, which studies dolphins in the Atlantic, is now using similar algorithms, coupled with underwater keyboards and computers, to try to decode dolphin"
This sounds like the "uncanny valley", but for talking animals. A talking cartoon animal is just a cartoon. A talking animal that looks realistic is creepy.
- Why does she need underwater computers?