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    NO AI IN HUMOR: R2-D2 WALKS INTO A BAR, DOESN’T GET THE JOKE

    Apr 05, 2019 3 minutes
    Image: Fabian Bimmer

    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

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