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Mar 31, 2019

No AI in humor: R2-D2 walks into a bar, doesn’t get the joke

Posted by in categories: humor, robotics/AI

“Artificial intelligence will never get jokes like humans do.”


WASHINGTON (AP) — A robot walks into a bar. It goes CLANG.

Alexa and Siri can tell jokes mined from a humor database, but they just don’t get them.

Linguists and computer scientists say this is something to consider on April Fools’ Day: Humor is what makes humans special. When people try to teach machines what’s funny, the results are at times laughable but not quite in the way intended.

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