Catherine Malabou : Down the Other Queer Valley
Channel: pmilat
Date: 27/02/2018

* February 26, 2018 @ Academy of Dramatic Art, Zagreb *

— Down the Other Queer Valley : A Philosophical Questioning of Artificial Intelligence

The title plays with the notion of «uncanny valley» developed by robotician Masahiro Mori to characterize the  relationship between the degree of a robot's  resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to such it. The concept of the uncanny valley suggests that humanoids which appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings cause uncanny feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers. Valley denotes a dip in the human observer's affinity for the replica. The more resemblant the replica, the stronger the feeling of uncaniness (bottom of the valley). In her presentation, Malabou asked herself where we exactly situate ourselves in the valley with the last developments of IA. Hanson’s robots (Sofia and Philip K. Dick were the examples). She then examined the difference or similarity between «uncanny» and «queer».

Organized by Multimedia Institute (Zagreb) and Faculty of Media and Communication (Belgrade), with support by Kulturtreger/booksa.hr, Kurziv/kulturpunkt.hr, Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb, Institut Français in Zagreb and Belgrade.

More at : http://www.mi2.hr/2018/02/catherine-malabou-preobrazaji-inteligencije/