There's at least one industry where workers don't have to worry about robots taking their jobs: Comedy writing.
“If you prick me in my battery pack, do I not bleed alkaline fluid?” — a human-written joke for a comedy robot. Alexa and Siri can tell jokes mined from a humor database, but they don’t get them.Linguists and computer scientists say this is something to consider: Humor is what makes humans special. When people try to teach machines what’s funny, the results are at times laughable but not in the intended way.
When it comes to humor, the people who study it say context is key. Even expert linguists have trouble explaining humor, said Tristan Miller, a computer scientist and linguist at Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany. Allison Bishop, a Columbia University computer scientist who also performs stand-up comedy, said computer learning looks for patterns, but comedy thrives on things hovering close to a pattern and veering off just a bit.For comedians, that’s job security. Bishop said her parents were happy when her brother became a full-time comedy writer because it meant he wouldn’t be replaced by a machine.
Oregon State University computer scientist Heather Knight created the comedy-performing robot Ginger to help her design machines that better interact with — and especially respond to — humans. She said it turns out people most appreciate a robot’s self-effacing humor.
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