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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.'"
Coffee is like a woman.
Hot and sweet at first, then increasingly cold and bitter.
Bazinga.
I like my women like I like my coffee...inanimate.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
with a spoon in them?
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give us a website with access to this joke maker! not just a journal article
Reading the article, they have a (human-created) statistical model for the specific words people will find funny in this one, exact type of joke. The only thing the "AI" is doing is analyzing word frequencies against this model. I suggest calling these "statistically-generated" jokes, or similar.
I like my women like I like my AI joke generator. Inaccessible to most of the interested geeks.
Usually people mix up humor and powerful humor. So they think of all the ingredients that make it work. The best example of humor is then the one that makes you laugh more.
But here's another angle: Just think of humor as having a humor part and a booster that makes you laugh more. The humor part is just the perception switch. It can be pretty mild. But add the naughtiness, the meanness , the embarassment and they provide a boost to the humor.
Taken that way, the AI examples in the topic article are really touching the essence of humor.