Microsoft computer learns to recognize humor – Telegraaf.nl

NEW YORK –

Microsoft has teamed up with The New Yorker has developed a computer system that can recognize humor to some extent. The company will present the results this week at a technology conference in Sydney

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On the back of the American newspaper The New Yorker stands Every week a black cartoon. Readers may think of a caption for it. Every week there are about five thousand entries were received and select the best joke is a hellish job. According cartoonist Bob Mankoff keeps his assistant, who is at this task, it is often only a few full year. “It’s a bit daunting,” he told Bloomberg. “It looks like snow blindness: you become blind to the humor.”

Perhaps the assistant soon get help from a computer with artificial intelligence that has a sense of humor. Together with scientists from Microsoft Mankoff launched a project to teach the purpose of a computer what’s funny. Thousands of cartoons and captions were introduced into the system. First it was “trained” to select the best captions that comprise approximately the same joke. Then it had to put jokes in order.

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To recognize things like sarcasm and puns has for decades one of the biggest challenges for developers software. Although a computer according Mankoff probably never will be as funny as men, Microsoft did manage to rig a system that can work a lot easier. All favorite captions of the assistant turned averaging sit at the 55.8 percent that were rated best by the software.

This means that every week can be at least 2200 entries are deleted immediately without the funniest jokes end up in the trash. “That saves the assistant average fifty percent of his work,” says Mankoff. Microsoft wants to use the knowledge gained to improve software like Skype Translator. Eventually the group wants to develop systems themselves can invent jokes, for example, voice assistants like Siri making funny

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