A circle is a familiar shape reminiscent of a face and can be given mouth like animations, it provides a center for your eyes to focus where there would otherwise be a person.
Because face it, if they used anything remotely resembling a human the uncanny valley would deter most from using it.
I would’ve thought the AI could have come up with a better logo than a blue circle
The brief was obviously “HAL 9000, but make it seem less threatening".
Honestly it does make sense.
A circle is a familiar shape reminiscent of a face and can be given mouth like animations, it provides a center for your eyes to focus where there would otherwise be a person.
Because face it, if they used anything remotely resembling a human the uncanny valley would deter most from using it.
So lemme get this straight: It has to look like a face, but can’t look like a face, so circle.
Nah, I don’t buy it.
If they can’t make an AI that appears more trustworthy, I’d rather argue with the Microsoft paperclip.
A face suffocing? Or a smurf maybe…