7Aug/23Off
Is this the future of comedy? The AI acts taking to the stage at the Edinburgh Fringe
... The show's co-founder, Piotr Mirowski, a research scientist of a leading AI lab, asks the programme they use to "tell Sky News a great joke".
The result:
"Why don't scientists trust atoms?"
"Because they make up everything."
...
"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. ...
See the full story here: https://news.sky.com/story/is-this-the-future-of-comedy-the-ai-acts-taking-to-the-stage-at-the-edinburgh-fringe-12935018
