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Imagine you tell your dad something about a negotiator, or a car. Just enough material for him to land an appalling pun:<\/p>
That’s because [the] negotiator got my car back to me in one peace.<\/em><\/p> But this is the work of no dad. Instead, it was created by a pun-generating artificial intelligence, created by Stanford researchers to prove that a neural network can have a sense of humor, too. The results were hilarious, but not always in the way you’d expect. Some of these knee-slappers were barely coherent — but they might provide a preview of what happens when AI starts to become funny.<\/p> A preprint of the research<\/a>, published in the journal arXiv<\/em> last month, describes how the researchers fed pairs of homophones — like “two” and “too” — to a neural network.<\/p> The results often had an almost-there quality that’ll be familiar to close watchers of AI-generated text. Here’s an example: Even from the outside, I could tell that he’d already lost some wait.<\/em><\/p> There are plenty of challenges that remain.<\/p> Neural networks “are rule-abiding to a fault, and that makes them terrible jokers,” writes Wired<\/em><\/a>.<\/p> In an organized pun-off against competing human jokesters, the machine was rated to be funnier than a human just ten percent of the time.<\/p> “While we improve beyond current techniques, we are still far from human-generated puns,” concludes the prewrite. Neural networks tend to conflate creativity with nonsense — which remains a “big challenge in humor.”<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>The Comedian Is in the Machine. AI Is Now Learning Puns<\/a> [Wired<\/em>] More on machine learning:<\/strong> Machine Learning Is Giving Retro Games Cutting-Edge Graphics<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post This AI Is Spitting Out Coherent, Almost-Funny Dad Puns<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read the original: Pun Generator Imagine you tell your dad something about a negotiator, or a car. Just enough material for him to land an appalling pun: That\u2019s because [the] negotiator got my car back to me in one peace Continue reading HumorBot<\/h2>
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