AI comedy acts are taking to the stage at the Edinburgh Fringe
But can computers really be funny?
Artificial Intelligence Improvisation is a show that sets out to see if algorithms can get audiences laughing. The improvised performance sees humans deliver the chatbots funniest lines.The show's co-founder, Piotr Mirowski, a former research scientist on Google's DeepMind project, asks the programme they use to"tell Sky News a great joke".One of the show's actors, Boyd Branch, believes there's plenty to laugh about when it comes to AI.
"We're laughing at tech in a way that's awkwardly inserted into human conditions... and so I think the humour of the robot actually emerges on stage when we watch our relationship to it kind of crumble." Aside from generating some rather basic puns or one-liners, algorithms haven't really been able to crack comedy."Comedy is the last thing that AI is going to get near because not only do you need to actually invent AI - and not just a language summariser - but you need to fill it with cultural knowledge, reference points, sensitivity levels.
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