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

[TexasTowelie]

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

Alexa and Siri can tell jokes mined from a humor database, but they 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 in the way intended.

"Artificial intelligence will never get jokes like humans do," said Kiki Hempelmann, a computational linguist who studies humor at Texas A&M University-Commerce. "In themselves, they have no need for humor. They miss completely context."

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[lastlib]

1. "Artificial intelligence will never get jokes like humans do"...

Neither will repuglikans.

[cstanleytech]

2. Its foolish to say an AI will never understand humor or be able to laugh

at a joke like a human would because it is funny.
Why? Because in the end humans are just organic computers and if we can can have a sense of humor then a truly advanced AI can have one as well though of course it will probably take a few hundred if not thousand years for one to be built that is that advanced.

[airplaneman]

3. Alexa: he he he he he he he. n/t.