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.
A face suffocing? Or a smurf maybe…