Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor Veale, Tony
For fans of computers and comedy alike, an accessible and entertaining look into how we can use artificial intelligence to make smart machines funny.
Most robots and smart devices are not known for their joke-telling abilities. And yet, as computer scientist Tony Veale explains in Your Wit Is My Command, machines are not inherently unfunny; they are just programmed that way. By examining the mechanisms of humor and jokes–how jokes actually works–Veale shows that computers can be built with a sense of humor, capable not only of producing a joke but also of appreciating one. Along the way, he explores the humor-generating capacities of fictional robots ranging from B-9 in Lost in Space to TARS in I nterstellar, maps out possible scenarios for developing witty robots, and investigates such aspects of humor as puns, sarcasm, and offensiveness.
In order for robots to be funny, Veale explains, we need to analyze humor computationally. Using artificial intelligence (AI), Veale shows that joke generation is a knowledge-based process–a sense of humor is blend of wit and wisdom. He notes that existing technologies can detect sarcasm in conversation, and explains how some jokes can be pre-scripted while others are generated algorithmically–all while making the technical aspects of AI accessible for the general reader. Of course, there’s no single algorithm or technology that we can plug in to make our virtual assistants or GPS voice navigation funny, but Veale provides a computational roadmap for how we might get there.
Categories:
Computers – Computer Science
Year:
2021
Publisher:
The MIT Press
Language:
english
Pages:
307
ISBN 10:
0262045990
ISBN 13:
9780262045995
File:
194 MB
Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor
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Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor
Authors: Veale
Year: 2021
Publisher: The MIT Press
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780262045995
ISBN 10: 262045990
Categories: Computers, Computer Science
Pages: 320 / 319
Edition:
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