August 20, 2007
Researchers design humorous "bot." University of Cincinnati researchers Julia Taylor and Larry Mazlack recently unveiled a "bot” — more accurately a software program — that recognizes jokes. They reported the development at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference in Vancouver, Canada. All bad jokes aside, their research represents a step forward in computers reaching the capability of a human mind.
That's really interesting, and certainly significant, but it's worth noting that the program only recognizes one kind of joke: the pun.
This is a really, really good post. Does the bot recognise sarcasm?
But how does it smell?
Also, as far as only recognizing one kind of joke, I'm assuming that they'll build from there. Humor is a subtle thing, with the pun certainly being the least subtle type thereof.
Seems like the logical place to start, just as a child might.
I have been informed by my robot that this interesting post is in fact hilarious. Considering that I know several people with no detectable sense of humor whatsoever, I'd say machines are way ahead of humans already.
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I imagine sarcasm will be real easy to program. *rolls eyes dramatically*
Having just got back from a busy long weekend at the Edingburgh Fringe, I can honestly say that I bet this robot would be funnier than many comedians.
My computer crashed the other day and it took some time for it to come out of it's coma; it used to chuckle at the dry folly of life, but now it spasms uncontrollably at the mere mention of Carrot Top. Should I be concerned? Oh: and the worst part about the whole thing? The other computer was drunk at the time of the accident.
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