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AI Is Funny - a Generative Joke Model

Posted by timothy on from the funny-is-a-strong-word-for-it dept.

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.'"

8 of 211 comments (clear)

  1. Al? by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Al? by Dr.+Sheldon+Cooper · · Score: 5, Funny

      Coffee is like a woman.

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

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      Bazinga.
    2. Re:Al? by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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      Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
    3. Re:Al? by jxander · · Score: 5, Funny

      with a spoon in them?

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      This signature is false.
  2. Women by SJHillman · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Re:Manually Generated by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  4. Re:Manually Generated by rudy_wayne · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

  5. Re:Manually Generated by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.