Your wit is my command : building AIs with a sense of humor / Tony Veale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Veale, Tony, 1967- author.

Series:

The MIT Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence--Philosophy.

Artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2021]

Summary:

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

Contents:

1. Does Not Compute: Why Our Machines Need A Sense of Humor

2. It's a Joke, Jim, But Not as we Know It: A Tour of Scholarly Perspectives and Theories of Humor

3. Tweet My Shorts: Twitterbots Can Turn Our Theories into Simple Practice

4. Double Trouble: Humorous Storytelling and Embodied AI

5. Practical Magic: Systematic Approaches to Joke Creation

6. Danger, Danger: Incongruity and the Time Course of Jokes

7. Wit Happens: Computational Models of Punning and Wordplay

8. Physics Envy: Quantitative Approaches to Humor Analysis

9. Taking Exception: Computational Treatments of Sarcasm and Irony

10. At Wit's End: Lessons for the Future

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-262-36641-X

OCLC:

1255633040