AI Is Funny - a Generative Joke Model

RemyBR writes "Can computers tell a good joke? Is comedy just a matter of statistics or is there something only a human can bring to creating a joke? A joke generator created at the University of Edinburgh (PDF) suggests that AI can be funny. Some AI generated jokes: 'I like my relationships like I like my source, open,' 'I like my coffee like I like my war, cold,' 'I like my boys like I like my sectors, bad.'"

Manually Generated

[Dr. Sheldon Cooper]

I like my slashdot like I like my like like like...

Loop detected, aborting.

Al?

[gbjbaanb]

Am I the only one who read the headline and thought of Al Gore?

ob. joke.. I like my coffee like my men - strong and black.

Re:Al?

[Dr. Sheldon Cooper]

Coffee is like a woman.

Hot and sweet at first, then increasingly cold and bitter.

Cue the barrage...

[pspahn]

I like my women like I like my sectors, industrial.

Re:Al?

[oodaloop]

I like my women like I like my coffee...inanimate.

Re:Al?

[jxander]

with a spoon in them?

Re:Manually Generated

[Anonymous Coward]

Yo dawg, I herd u like like so I put a like in your like so you can like while you like!

Re:Al?

[NoImNotNineVolt]

I like my women like I like my whiskey -- 12 years old and mixed up with coke.

Women

[SJHillman]

I like my women like I like my AI joke generator. Inaccessible to most of the interested geeks.

Re:Ok, now let me try...

[N0Man74]

...I like my computer generated joke examples like I like my MSDN how-to articles...terrible?

I like my computer generated jokes like I like my computer joke generator errors...

.cpp(31) : error C2337: 'funny_error' : attribute not found

Re:Manually Generated

[ackthpt]

Slashdot would be more like:

I like my slashdot like I like my cat. Hairy.
I like my slashdot like I like my cat. Hairy.
I like my slashdot like I like my cat. Hairy.
[dup...]

With the occasional interspersed 3 page rant about something nobody can make sense of

Re:Manually Generated

[rudy_wayne]

Slashdot would be more like:

I like my slashdot like I like my cat. Hairy.
I like my slashdot like I like my cat. Hairy.
I like my slashdot like I like my cat. Hairy.
[dup...]

With the occasional interspersed 3 page rant about HOSTS files

fixed that for you

Re:Al?

[IwantToKeepAnon]

Coffee is like a woman.

Expensive Coffee is like an Expensive Woman .... passed by an Asian Palm Civet ... wait, that didn't quite work.

Re:Manually Generated

[Big Hairy Ian]

I like my coffee like I like my slashdot. Filtered.