“What kind of pig would you ignore at a party? A wild bore” – that’s the Joke Analysis and Production Engine (Jape) in action. OK, there are programs that can independently generate basic puns and one-liners. Why is that? Because, unlike music and visual art, comedy can’t be easily reduced to an algorithm. Some experts in the field now classify humour as we used to think of chess: a significant (maybe even out-of-reach) frontier for AI to conquer if it’s ever to measure up to human intelligence. One recent article noted that AI visual art and AI music have developed to a degree that often astonishes us, but “the latest wave of chatbots have yielded no equivalent laugh-out-loud watershed moment”. As that would suggest, humour isn’t AI’s forte. Netflix released “the first standup comedy special written entirely by bots” in 2021, although it’s widely held to have actually been created by the writer Keaton Patti, who specialises in, er, pretending to be an artificial intelligence.
The Conchords aside, the Improbotics show – which has been doing the rounds for some years – is not operating alone in the terrain where AI meets comedy.
Of course, comedy saw this coming before Hinton did – see Flight of the Conchords’ robot-apocalypse classic The Humans Are Dead.
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