# uncanny valley (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover uncanny valley. Page: Feed: --- ## [Let’s Talk About an AI Tool, That’s Going Away](https://theailab.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-an-ai-tool-thats) _2026-08-20 · Brian W. Sykes · AI Lab_ Google Mixboard has a END DATE of September 28... Enjoy it while you can! ## [Your Team Has AI. Now What?](https://theailab.substack.com/p/your-team-has-ai-now-what) _2026-08-20 · Brian W. Sykes · AI Lab_ Taking a look at what my fellow creatives have begun doing with AI integration in their field of productivity. Here is something from a Photographer in Bristol, England. ## [Photographic Processes, Part 2: The Race of 1839 • Two Processes, Three Weeks Apart and How The One That Lost Won Everything.](https://theailab.substack.com/p/photographic-processes-part-2-the) _2026-08-20 · Brian W. Sykes · AI Lab_ Part 2 lands on a good date, incidentally — Daguerre's process was disclosed publicly on August 19, 1839. Today is its 187th anniversary. ## [Exploring the Legacy - Photographic Printing Techniques and their Role in AI Artistry](https://theailab.substack.com/p/exploring-the-legacy-photographic) _2026-08-18 · Brian W. Sykes · AI Lab_ Revisiting an article I wrote in my LinkedIn Newsletter - the 15th of June, 2023. The First Photograph Took All Day... ## [Commercial Scale + Field Applications • P10 • The Master Blueprint](https://theailab.substack.com/p/commercial-scale-field-applications-ccc) _2026-08-14 · Brian W. Sykes · AI Lab_ The expanded "16 Elements of Generative Control" - a comprehensive, deep-dive walkthrough. ## [I Haven't Picked Up a Trumpet in Years, and That Was a Choice.](https://theailab.substack.com/p/i-havent-picked-up-a-trumpet-in-years) _2026-08-11 · Brian W. Sykes · AI Lab_ What AI takes from you isn't the skill. It's the decision. ## [AI Video Component Assets ::: Open Laptop](https://theailab.substack.com/p/ai-video-component-assets-open-laptop) _2026-08-10 · Brian W. Sykes · AI Lab_ Creating a custom animated screen frame device to reveal your content in a fresh new way - ie: an open laptop. ## [Commercial Scale + Field Applications • P9 • Expanding the Casting Office](https://theailab.substack.com/p/commercial-scale-field-applications-491) _2026-08-07 · Brian W. Sykes · AI Lab_ Scaling this framework to prove how quickly and effortlessly you can run the exact same pipeline for women, children, and diverse demographics. ## [Live w/ Brian Sykes (AI LAB) + David Litwin](https://theailab.substack.com/p/live-w-brian-sykes-ai-lab-david-litwin) _2026-08-07 · Brian W. Sykes · AI Lab_ A recording from Brian W. Sykes's live video [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210135062/467073bd0661194115dd423bb5f2cf08.mp3) ## [Commercial Scale + Field Applications • P8 • Model Sheets & Character Systems](https://theailab.substack.com/p/commercial-scale-field-applications-709) _2026-08-03 · Brian W. Sykes · AI Lab_ Developing full multi-outfit, multi-setting model sheets that lock down identical facial geometry across completely different creative concepts. ## [Save with community-voted codes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/O2cNc0KAZqS8) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ Search thousands of community-verified coupon codes — 100% free, no account needed. ## [Commercial Scale + Field Applications • P7 • Spatial Relocation](https://theailab.substack.com/p/part-7-spatial-relocation) _2026-07-30 · Brian W. Sykes · AI Lab_ A game-changing technique to take your character and setting, and let the AI seamlessly reposition them across various locations within the exact same environment. • Volume 2 ## [Ditch Generic AI](https://theailab.substack.com/p/ditch-generic-ai) _2026-07-28 · Brian W. Sykes · AI Lab_ The 6-Step Pipeline That Makes AI Characters Look Hyper-Realistic ## [Priority Chess – welcome to the Scrum Casino](https://westergaard.site/2025/11/priority-chess-welcome-to-the-scrum-casino/) _2025-11-01 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ Development often deals with backlogs of tasks and the problem of how to schedule them to achieve the desired goal. To do that, we need to know in which order to execute the tasks, and to translate that into a plan we need to know how long they take. Here I introduce a missing piece to achieve that. ## [AI is Disrupting the Pareto Principle and Proof-of-Concepts](https://westergaard.site/2025/10/ai-is-disrupting-the-pareto-principle-and-proof-of-concepts/) _2025-10-24 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ The Pareto principle is being upended by AI, so that you no longer spend 20% of the time to make 80% of the functionality, as well is it changing the worth of Proof-of-Concept implementations. ## [Use of AI for Enterprise Software Development](https://westergaard.site/2025/06/use-of-ai-for-enterprise-software-development/) _2025-06-06 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ Building enterprise software is expensive. Over the years, many approaches have attempted to alleviate this with varying success, and the latest is to use AI to aid in software development. Here, I go over a project we did with an intern to evaluate the benefits that. ## [Self-hosting Vernissage with Kubernetes](https://westergaard.site/2025/05/self-hosting-vernissage-with-kubernetes/) _2025-05-02 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ I wanted an image gallery, and ended up picking Vernissage. The documentation comes with a description of how to host is using Docker Compose, but I wanted to use Kubernetes instead, so here's how I did that. ## [Self-hosted Image Gallery](https://westergaard.site/2025/05/self-hosted-image-gallery/) _2025-05-01 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ I am moving away from WordPress, which I used to use to share my photos, and now I need a replacement. This post summarizes my wishes and some of the applications that nearly satisfy them. TL;DR: I picked Vernissage. ## [Deep Canvasing](https://westergaard.site/2025/04/deep-canvasing/) _2025-04-17 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ One of the hardest things to do, psychologically, is admitting you were wrong. It hurts core beliefs and our sense of self. Deep canvasing might be the only way to counter that. ## [The Eisenhower Matrix and AI](https://westergaard.site/2024/12/the-eisenhower-matrix-and-ai/) _2024-12-30 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ A simple guide to when using AI to solve a problem is appropriate and a comparison to Eisenhower's matrix for task categorization. ## [Personal Blogging Today](https://westergaard.site/2024/12/personal-blogging-today/) _2024-12-23 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ Here, I'm surveying personal blogging software, and how I set up my software of choice, Ghost. ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/otqv4hiTYfX9) _2024-12-23 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [Honey is not a Scam](https://westergaard.site/2024/12/honey-is-not-a-scam/) _2024-12-23 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ The internet is all up in arms about the Honey browser extension, calling it a scam. People claiming that are extremely naïve. ## [Death of the Algorithms?](https://westergaard.site/2024/11/death-of-the-algorithms/) _2024-11-27 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ Algorithms allow computers to perform tasks. To many, AI and algorithms seem like magic and get lumped together. Simultaneously, algorithms get a bad name due to algorithmic social media feeds. I find it important nurture the ancient art of algorithm development, and here I explain why. ## [Towards Better Spring Support for Cerbos](https://westergaard.site/2024/11/towards-better-spring-support-for-cerbos/) _2024-11-21 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ In this post I report on some further progress on integrating Cerbos authorization with Spring Security and Spring Data JPA. I made a library we're currently using, and here I outline how the code can be used and how it works. ## [Applying the Xerox Experiment to AI](https://westergaard.site/2024/11/applying-the-xerox-experiment-to-ai/) _2024-11-20 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ I've previously talked about AI's uncanny valley problem, that a little AI is worse than no AI, and an experiment showing that people accept any reason for performing small favors is a great example of why that is. ## [AI's Uncanny Valley Problem](https://westergaard.site/2024/11/ais-uncanny-valley-problem/) _2024-11-07 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ The uncanny valley is an effect describing how we like a picture more if it resembles a person, but dropping significantly in the transition from great cartoon to badly rendered real person. Here, I posit the same is true about the usefulness of AI. ## [The Downfall of WordPress](https://westergaard.site/2024/11/the-downfall-of-wordpress/) _2024-11-03 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ WordPress, quite possible to most popular CMS, is no longer a viable solution. It is no longer free software and the ecosystem is likely to fragment to the detriment of users. ## [The Failure of Prediction Markets](https://westergaard.site/2024/11/the-failure-of-prediction-markets/) _2024-11-03 · Michael Westergaard · Michaelpedia Galactica_ Dr Doom is humorously lauded as having predicted 10 of the past 1 crises, and prediction markets aim to make better predictions than that. They are founded in genuine research, but have flaws. Here, I present 3 reasons one of the biggest prediction markets, Polymarket, is not really that useful.