What is the recipe for a good joke? It’s not clear cut and it’s even harder for computers to recognize humor. “For a machine to understand the ingredients of a joke…it has to understand the language.”
Click above to listen to part 1 of Gained in Translation, featuring Julia Rayz, Computer scientist and associate professor at Purdue University’s Department of Computer and Information Technology, discussing the difficulty in training A.I. to have a sense of humor.
Gained in Translation:
Part 1: Julia Rayz / A.I. Comedy
Part 2: Steve Adler / Moon Cheese
Part 3: Doug Vakoch / Messaging E.T.
Part 4: Richard Wrangham / We Domesticated Apes
