“Artificial intelligence will never get jokes like humans do. In themselves, they have no need for humour. They miss completely context.”
Alexa and Siri can tell jokes mined from a humour database, but they just don’t get them.
And when it comes to humour, the people who study it — sometimes until all laughs are beaten out of it — say context is key. Even expert linguists have trouble explaining humour, said Tristan Miller, a computer scientist and linguist at Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany. “I like to believe that there is something very innately human about what makes something funny,” Bishop said.
“They get them — sort of,” Rayz said. “Even if we look at puns, most of the puns require huge amounts of background.”Rayz has spent 15 years trying to get computers to understand humour, and at times the results were, well, laughable. She recalled a time she gave the computer two different groups of sentences. Some were jokes. Some were not. The computer classified something as a joke that people thought wasn’t a joke.
“We know that humour — at least good humour — relies on nuance and on timing,” Slonim said. “And these are very hard to decipher by an automatic system.”
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