[Link] Zack Weinersmith's One-Liner Generator

-1 Post author: Dallas 25 March 2014 03:30PM

Zack Weinersmith of SMBC fame has suggested an interesting artificial intelligence project: generate jokes by observing utility as a function of rate of change in initial understanding over time.

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Comments (7)

Comment author: NoSuchPlace 25 March 2014 03:55:52PM *  3 points [-]

Perhaps you should link to the article directly. At first I was trying to figure out the connection between densely packed Hitlers and one-line generators. (Edit: My mistake the link was there I just didn't see it)

Also, unless you want to elaborate, maybe this should go into the open thread?

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 25 March 2014 05:30:57PM 1 point [-]

They did link to the source as "(source)" (see the bottom line of their post). But I agree that this should be in the open thread.

Comment author: NoSuchPlace 25 March 2014 08:02:51PM 0 points [-]

I completely missed that the first time, thank you. Is there a way to only retract part of a post?

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 25 March 2014 09:15:55PM 1 point [-]

No, but you can just add an edit saying something like "Wrong; see below".

Comment author: NoSuchPlace 27 March 2014 04:03:57PM 0 points [-]

Thank you. Fixed

Comment author: khafra 27 March 2014 11:43:09AM 1 point [-]
Comment author: Transfuturist 28 March 2014 09:38:08AM *  1 point [-]

Looks like it. I see it as a promising theory. Weinersmith could have made his point more correct (Ctrl-F "What’s my middle name?") if he had talked about dU as a derivable signal. Calculus would have made the point more succinct, I think.

Then again, I try to think about these things computationally, while Zack is just trying to make a convincing argument.