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Using AI To Identify Innuendo
angry tapir writes "Turning seemingly normal comments into sexual innuendo by adding the words 'That's what she said' is a cultural phenomenon. This has led some to wonder whether it is possible to determine when it is appropriate to add those magic four words to a sentence. As it turns out, identifying humor through software is hard. Two researchers at the University of Washington, however, were willing to give it their best shot. In a recently released paper entitled 'That's What She Said: Double Entendre Identification,' the researchers describe what they've found and introduce their new approach to the problem: 'Double Entendre via Noun Transfer' or DEviaNT for short." It's good to know that someone is trying to make sure the human race gets a sufficiently lewd AI one day.
"Two researchers at the University of Washington, however, were willing to give it their best shot" - That was she said!
inYOURendo
... a bird flew innuendo!
Identifying innuendo, that's a hard problem.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
the BEAVIS (Binary Euphemism And Vulgar Innuendo System).
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The fact that they thought that stretching a description of their work to make a catchy acronym was worth devoting effort to is funny.
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HARLOT
Horny-Analog Realistic Lexigraphic Ontological Tabulator
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It's only with research like this that one day will net us the Misoginist Core, as seen in Portal 2!
That's what she said.
...isn't that a brand of suppository?
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I would bet the computer would explode if you ran the lyrics of a Bloodhound Gang song through this software.
Does that mean that, come judgement day, Skynet will rape us all??
Grammar nazis are to this community what excrements are to gold.
Innuendo: an Italian suppository
Dammit, if I'm going to get a fembot, I at least want humor and sarcasm programmed in! I don't get enough of that in my daily life.
In lieu of the innuendo in the end know my intent though.
Would it label something straightforward as innuendo? For example, would the phrase "Let's have sex" be identified as having a double meaning, or would this system be able to tell that it means exactly what it says?
Wouldn't you want your sexbot to have a sufficiently lewd AI?
Funny, I read that as
"HARLOT
Horny-Analog Realistic Lexigraphic Ornithological Tabulator"
and thought, "Hmmm, yeah, tits! "
would make going for a drink with my friends utterly unnecessary!
Just have a table of words ex - hard, cock, laid, lay, blow, slot, long, etc....
Then, if it sees it in the sentence, add "The what she said!" or for a slam, anything that's a quantity, add "I don't know about " [insert quantity modifier] -ex "Boy! That's was hard!"
"I don't know about HARD!"
Sexual innuendo is one of the lamo type of jokes.
So, do you think that these researchers are trying for an Ig Noble Award, or that it's pure coincidence that the primary application of their research is teaching computers to laugh at dirty jokes?
Next they should invent a sarcasm detector, that would be really useful.
.evom ton seod gis eht
I don't know what I'm saying ):
I'm really frustrated with chattterbots using clever tricks to hold a conversation without understanding it. They can talk about many different things but it's clear the best of them can only respond to, at most, the previous sentence and one possible current topic. Here's an example from a chat I just had with Jabberwacky:
Me: Would you rather be a tuna or an elephant and why?
JW: I would much rather be a bee, and make honey for my queen.
Me: Okay but if 'bee' weren't one of the options.
JW: What does gender mean?
This chatterbot couldn't score over 60 in a standard IQ test and it shows: When it doesn't know what to say it says something random.
Anyway the point of all of this is at least someone is looking at making a computer understand something new in conversational habits instead of looking for new clever tricks.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
"That's What the Algorithm Thinks She Said"
If "that's what she said" doesn't work, "giggidy" probably does.
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I honestly don't have a single clue what you just said.
As it turns out, identifying humor through software is hard.
That's what she said.
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In these days it pays to find a unique name for your project.
You need to qualify a search with other words if you want to google an acronym that makes a common word. Finding which extra words to use in your search is a complicating factor and you are sure to miss many pages.
When I create a new project, the first step is to google each name I come up with until I find one that returns no google results.
Why don't the authors of this research scrape all the comments here and see if it recognizes any of the heavy breathing wordplay?
I was reading the news about censorship the other day, whilst busy swapping some stuff on the dark net, as you do.
And my mate said to me, "Thank God the internet isn't a human, right?"
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
that is all.
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Am I reading the Onion?
I mean ... that's just bizarre!!
And, really, until it can master all of the places where you can use "said the actress|bishop to the bishop|actress", it will always be incomplete. =)
Now, if you can make a computer program that can follow innuendo, as well as process the use of profanity in the English language ... you'll be onto something.
I mean, the fucking use of the word fuck is in and of itself a fucking difficult thing for the fuckers to fucking figure out -- until then, they're pretty much fucked. Try hard enough, and you can make fuck into every single fucking part of speech, except maybe for those fucked up articles.
And, of course, one of the best uses of it ever ... fuck you, you fucking fuck. =)
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"Turning seemingly normal comments into sexual innuendo by adding the words 'That's what she said' is a cultural phenomenon. (If you know what I mean) This has led some to wonder whether it is possible to determine when it is appropriate to add those magic four words to a sentence. As it turns out, identifying humor through software is hard. (That's what she said) Two researchers at the University of Washington, however, were willing to give it their best shot. (Yeah, I bet they are) In a recently released paper entitled 'That's What She Said: Double Entendre Identification,' the researchers describe what they've found and introduce their new approach to the problem (I'll approach your problem!): 'Double Entendre via Noun Transfer' or DEviaNT for short. (heh, short? *snicker*)"
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A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
Innuendo is a hell of a lot more than just saying "that's what she said" after someone else says anything that might be in about one-third of the entire range of possible things anyone might ever say, ever. Wayne and Garth, although brilliant pioneers of their field, aren't the be-all and end-all of suggestive humour. If you don't understand this, you probably don't get sarcasm, irony, wit, wryness, or indeed anything else in the world of creative, sophisticated humour.
Don't get me wrong; a joke about a penis can be amazing, but if we've heard it before or a twelve-year-old could have thought of it, then you're not a comical genius; you're a buffoon, and if you think you're a comical genius, we have a technical term for you:
Fuckwit.
...but let me know when it can play a game of Ar tonelico.
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Because if you use innuendo, you must be a fucking deviant. Normal people never do it. Whoops.
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I hear they overclock when you play Yakkety Sax-- and you can tell them, that's what I said!
Seriously, put down the keyboard and walk away.
what she just said.
I prefer putting down straw men, whilst laughing.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Maybe we'll have an app for that soon so we can finally supplement out flirting techniques.
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They should just have asked Geoff Peterson. He's got it figured out. In your pants.
I think this could be really big; their task is really quite hard. First they have to suss out the meaning of the sentence, and ideally the cadence, in order to hold back until the right moment. Then they have to figure out where their addition can be legitimately inserted; not just any opening will suffice. Their biggest risk now is if they release prematurely; the timing is key and they don't want to blow it.
I'm near Seattle in the moment, and TFA cites a presentation in Portland in June. I may just have to go down.
Not to get too off topic by being serious, but I'm wondering if it is even possible to detect humor just from the expression.
Even with "that's what she said" there is an element of unpredictability that can only be tested when executed. I mean, sometimes it's not funny. In other words, the only test is if someone reads it and laughs.
This is much like not being able to predict the outcome of code completely without executing it.
We can always record results and rely on statistical analysis, but finding answers from the past is different from finding the answer just from what is present.
look like five to me!
God, shut up.
I'd see the Dr about that if I where you, that's what she said.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
This has led some to wonder whether it is possible to determine when it is appropriate to add those magic four words to a sentence.
That's easy: it is. I mean, people have been determining it's (in)appropriate every time they feel the need to say it.
Oh, you mean through software! Why didn't you say so?
I am not devoid of humor.
Cleverbot can be lewd when prompted.