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shminux comments on [Link] AI advances: computers can be almost as funny as people - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shminux 02 August 2013 08:56:11PM *  0 points [-]

Humor generation is a very hard problem.

Unfortunately computers can't tell which of the jokes they generate are actually funny, which is an even harder problem. I wonder if there is any research in that direction.

EDIT: apparently they can.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 03 August 2013 08:08:58AM 4 points [-]

Use joke evaluator to filter output of joke generator. Bam! Massive improvement on joke hit rate.