Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor - Couverture rigide

Veale, Tony

 
9780262045995: Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor
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ISBN 10 : 0262045990 ISBN 13 : 9780262045995
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2021

Synopsis

For fans of computers and comedy alike, an accessible and entertaining look into how we can use artificial intelligence to make smart machines funny.

Most robots and smart devices are not known for their joke-telling abilities. And yet, as computer scientist Tony Veale explains in Your Wit Is My Command, machines are not inherently unfunny; they are just programmed that way. By examining the mechanisms of humor and jokes--how jokes actually works--Veale shows that computers can be built with a sense of humor, capable not only of producing a joke but also of appreciating one. Along the way, he explores the humor-generating capacities of fictional robots ranging from B-9 in Lost in Space to TARS in Interstellar, maps out possible scenarios for developing witty robots, and investigates such aspects of humor as puns, sarcasm, and offensiveness.

In order for robots to be funny, Veale explains, we need to analyze humor computationally. Using artificial intelligence (AI), Veale shows that joke generation is a knowledge-based process--a sense of humor is blend of wit and wisdom. He notes that existing technologies can detect sarcasm in conversation, and explains how some jokes can be pre-scripted while others are generated algorithmically--all while making the technical aspects of AI accessible for the general reader. Of course, there's no single algorithm or technology that we can plug in to make our virtual assistants or GPS voice navigation funny, but Veale provides a computational roadmap for how we might get there.

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À propos de l?auteur

Tony Veale is Associate Professor of Computer Science at University College Dublin, with a focus on computational creativity. He is the coauthor of Twitterbots: Making Machines That Make Meaning (MIT Press).

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262045990
ISBN 13 
9780262045995
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
312
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