Why Song Hye Kyo Model is Breaking Rules?

Boys and girls,

Today I'll tell you something about what just every techsite in the Net wrote today. It is this picture:

It is Korean actress, Song Hye Kyo, and believe it or not, it is not a photo but CGI picture, made by very talented Indonesian CG designer, Max Edwin Wahyudi (for those interested, this is a text about making of aforementioned picture).

As my blog is about souls, and about computers, this topic has aroused my attention. Remember the Actroid, the first lifelike gynoid robot? (picture to the left, courtesy of Wikipedia) When it first came out, hypothesis about robotics concerning emotional response of humans to robots and other non-human entities, called the Uncanny Valley, came up to public attention.

To put it short, as a robot is made more humanlike in its appearance and motion, the emotional response from a human being to the robot will become increasingly positive and empathic, until a point is reached beyond which the response quickly becomes strongly repulsive. However, as the appearance and motion continue to become less distinguishable from a human being's, the emotional response becomes positive once more and approaches human-human empathy levels. This theory is not young, it was first coined by Masahiro Mori in 1970, but it was widely criticized as pseudoscience then.

For those of you, boys and girls, who are more interested in this theory, I'll point you to the Wikipedia article about it, but I want now to express my own opinion.

Close human likenesses are creepy because they are made to be creepy. When they are made to be beautiful, they are beautiful. And even they are made to be realistically beautiful, like in video game project Heavy Rain, they still look attractive.

Don't fear! The more life-like human likeness is, the better.

Song Hye Kyo model breaks the uncanny valley rule, Actroid does not (people who encountered her/it alive were often frightened and heavily disturbed by its lifelike appearance and actions). So, perhaps reason is in Actroid's bad make, not universal rule of repulsion?

Amen.