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[[File:nobleface_1364.jpg|link=Doctor Who (TV)|rightframe|Donating your face for use as a library information terminal. <br />It's like donating a park bench, except [[Uncanny Valley|way creepier]].]]
 
When an artificial intelligence is given the face and voice of a real (in the fictional setting) human being, instead of a made-up face.
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Contrast [[Virtual Ghost]] and [[Brain Uploading]], where the artificial intelligence ''is'' meant to be the same as the person it's copied from; all robotic forms of [[Doppelganger]]; and [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]].
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== Comic Books ==
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== Live Action TV ==
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episodes "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead", the computer information terminals in the Library have human faces. The Doctor explains that they're memorials to the faces' original owners, "like donating a park bench".
** Later, in "Let's Kill Hitler," the vocal control interface can take the appearance of anyone. The Doctor chooses the form of 6-year-old Amelia Pond, since at that point he hadn't screwed her up yet.
* In ''[[Eureka]]'' the voice of the house AI SARAH is actually a pitched up version of its inventor Fargo (because [fictionally] Sarah Michelle Gellar wouldn't agree to supply the voice).
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* In ''[[Time Trax]]'', Captain Lambert's AI sidekick SELMA has a "visual mode" based on a picture from his childhood, which turns out to have been modelled on his [[Missing Mom]].
* A plotline in ''[[Century City]]'' involved one of the lawyers, who had developed a crush on his computerised PA, wanting to track down the actress she was modeled on, despite her pointing out this was a very bad idea.
* ''[[A for Andromeda (TV)|A for Andromeda]]''. The [[Master Computer]] kills a female operator, then uses the information gathered in the process to create an [[Artificial Human]] who looks exactly like her.
* Played with in ''[[Warehouse 13]]''; when they accidentally activate a long dormant AI, Claudia questions why it looks like its creator, and [[Eureka|Fargo]] says AI designers often do that. However it later transpires {{spoiler|that it ''is'' in fact, a [[Virtual Ghost]] of sorts; an artifact-assisted [[Brain Uploading|upload]] of its creator's right brain}}.
 
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== Real Life ==
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:HUBO |HUBO]], a Korean robot with a wide repertoire of facial expressions, and, the better to demonstrate them, a life-like human face: Albert Einstein's.
 
 
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