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.'"

website!

[Xicor]

give us a website with access to this joke maker! not just a journal article

This Has Been Done

[Toad-san]

Well, in the movies anyway. Remember the first robot who could NOT get a joke? (Robbie)
And I think the first wise-cracking robot? (Johnny 5 in "Short Circuit")

And then of course there was Data .. with mixed results in reference to humor and jokes.

That's what she said

[barlevg]

The fascinating thing to me was that the funniest jokes it managed to come up with had a definite misogynistic streak. Is it because misogyny is inherently amusing, or because sexist jokes are low-hanging fruit? Link to more coverage of the same story. [telegraph.co.uk]

Schubert's 8th

[Alsee]

I like my jokes like I like my symphonies

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