Uncanny Valley

Aimi Eguchi  a humanoid singer in AKB48 Japanese Band

After watching a number of Hollywood action movies, like Avatar, Terminator specially science friction ones, If I tell you that I have a android which can sing , dance and perform all steps with real human. Now days Japan has turned into Uncanny valley where they are just about to insert humanoid with human community.

Recently a new member joined the Japanese band AKB48. Pop blogs and a magazine cover story introduced Aimi Eguchi as a sweet 16-year-old from a Tokyo suburb. But there was something strange about this new girl. Her incandescent looks and sterling voice won Aimi instant attention and the center spot in a candy ad. Yet questions arose when she appeared in two video spots. Aimi seemed stiff and awkward – not uncomfortable, more like unnatural.

"There was a weird reaction to it," says Zac Bentz, a writer and reviewer for the online music store HearJapan.com. "Within a week or two, people were already saying, 'Well, this doesn't look right.' "

She always looked straight at the camera, shared a bizarre resemblance to other girls in the band, and had a peculiar beauty. After a few weeks, AKB48 admitted that Aimi was computer generated. They took the nose, eyebrows, hair, and lips of six band mates and digitally stitched them into a new singer.

Future Map

Till we have come to know about robots which can perform specific tasks for which they have trained. The use of Artificial intelligence was for their learning and carve their skills in specific fields. They were better in working but not intelligent as we. I have seen movie robot of Rajnikant where he succeed in emotions mapping in Robot. But if a robo can sing dance and can read our minds with the help of 3D imaging technology and brain mapping. Advance robot can map  human mind and can get idea about his/her feelings. He can map his body by 3D imaging technology. All the matter is that we are going to adopt them as we are excited to accept this new generation. Till now Japan is uncanny valley, very soon we could acknowledge that we are also a part of it.

So carve yourself and be ready to accept a humanoid among us without knowing his actual identity. Its surely be adventures but hoping not to be like resident evil series.