Saturday, July 4, 2009

sense of humour in artifical intelligence

One of the things that has long captivated me is sense of humour of some people ,specially my brother who makes me laugh with every sentence he says.I wonder what kind of thinking goes into saying goes into jokes how can u can programm your self to create jokes like these that too time after time . There must be a thousand joke books and i dont know single book which teaches u how to make your own jokes.Till this day im quite hopeless about forming any pattern especially one that works with all people.


So, i am thinking can Scientist that are trying hard to create an artificial intelligence,will also develop there sense of humour one that makes their own jokes.(the process becomes all the more difficult if scientist themselves lack good sense of humour).Now when ever scientist get stuck they take que from nature .How did sense of humour develop in nature,does animals also laugh around ,does the laughing hynea mean the same with his laugh as we do.With my little knowledge of evolution i give this explanation : Sense of humour is another way to show your smart,which helps u find a mate (dont laugh at this im serious) .I have also read that laughter is induced in you when u see other people faltering ,then your sense of superiority kicks in and u laugh.(hmm seems easy now this way comps can make fun of us).


I think the biggest problem comes with finding any sort of mathematics in sense of humour.My friend always talks about this traine sets that are developed to make artifical systems work,where any new problem encounterd is broked down into old training sets and at the same time training sets are auto-modified to even work for a broader range of problems.(too bad they dont use the the good old differntial equations,well the scientist might go mad ).


Creating a joke is one thing but understanding at laughing at it whole-heartedly,enjoying it ,is a completely differnt issue.Most of the time when i laugh i can see the things in a different perspective ,will the computer be able to do so or will he form his own ways.

4 comments:

  1. really nice. U dont try to show off with complicated words and reading ur blog makes me feel like having you in our corridor discussing some aoc strategy .. keep writing !

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  2. i have a feeling that you, my friend, are meant to achieve this feat.. of teaching bots how to crack jokes! :D

    [see here's how you crack a good one]

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  3. Good one! :) And it is true about the finding the mate part! People are attacted to people who make them laugh - after all you look for your mate to make you happy in all ways :)

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