This Cat is Not a Cat, and this Man is Not Falling Off A Cliff: Across And Over The Uncanny Valley With AI

Matthew Oldridge
6 min readJan 3

This year, like last year, will see an explosion of artificial intelligence applications and tools, and generative AI penetrates ever further into the mainstream. The implications of these tools are hardly clear, as they rarely are when new and transformative technologies spring up, seemingly out of nowhere, to change how humans live and work.

One thing I have always tried to do as an educator, is to be very open about how the world is changing; lately…

Matthew Oldridge

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