When the digital person still looked creepy · Proposed air date:
Dr. Dave opens a Tech Blog video of Image Metrics' photorealistic character Emily while on air. Both brothers find the fully computer-generated face impressive and frightening: they can imagine a future in which viewers cannot distinguish reality from synthesis, yet in 2008 something still feels subtly wrong.
This excerpt runs from 8:56.386 to 9:51.678 within its preserved source recording.
Proposed recording date: 2008-08-23. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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