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I realized recently that although getting robots to understand humor is a hard problem, getting robots to develop stand-up comedy is tractable. The reason is s
by Isamu 8y ago
I realized recently that although getting robots to understand humor is a hard problem, getting robots to develop stand-up comedy is tractable.
The reason is stand-up comedians have to develop their act empirically. They try out material that they think might be funny, and they try it out in front of an audience. They go through a process of constant trial and error. This is in contrast to what most audiences think happens.
- sgillen 8y agoYes but being a human they already have a pretty good idea what might be funny for the audience they want to perfmorm for. So basically I think a computer would need a lot more trial and error than the human does, and I’m not sure a good way to allow for that magnitude of trial and error without having some other computer that has a sense of humor be the judge.
- Isamu 8y agoNo, you'd want to bootstrap the process with some kind of machine learning to categorize humor and non-humor. It would have poor accuracy, no doubt, but it would be better than random generation. I agree that it would be less efficient than in humans but with learning it might be able to converge on a set of strategies, possibly "cheats" that are likely to produce laughs.