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"A motherboard walks into a bar..." -- Teaching Computers to be Funny [message #31561]

Fri, 04 January 2013 19:52

hancock4
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from the NYT: Researchers are teaching computers to be funny — and,
in the process, showing humans why we laugh.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/opinion/sunday/can-compute rs-be-funny.html?hp

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Re: "A motherboard walks into a bar..." -- Teaching Computers to be Funny [message #31574 is a reply to message #31561]

Fri, 04 January 2013 22:14

Michael Black
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> from the NYT: Researchers are teaching computers to be funny ? and,

> in the process, showing humans why we laugh.

>

> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/opinion/sunday/can-compute rs-be-funny.html?hp

>

>

That suddenly reminds me of a story where Jim Butterfield (of Commodore
PET fame) was an investor in a computertized bartender in the late
seventies. I don't recall if the "bartender" would listen to people, or
tell jokes.

Michael

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