Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Laughter Brings Us Together

Jokes help humans interact and relate with each other, so why not share a laugh with robots too? Despite the failure of most sci-fi androids to grasp the intricacies of humor, researchers are developing a system to identify jokes and puns. They hope it will help increase machine understanding of common language usage, thus improving human-computer interaction.

via KurzweilAI.net

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