--- Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And yet, I can easily imagine a narrow-AI approach to creating new funny > videos, e.g. > > 1 -- make an image-processing system that can map out objects and > relationships in a video [e.g. fall_in(dog, toilet) ... fall_in(pig, lake) > ... ] > > 2 -- run a machine learning algorithm on the relation-sets extracted from > videos, with the goal of learning rules distinguishing funny from unfunny > videos > > 3 -- write a program to generate animated videos from sets of relationships > [e.g. to go from fall_in(dog, toilet) to an animation of a dog falling in a > toilet] > > 4 -- use the rules learned in Step 2 to generate new videos [possible e.g. > if the rules embody a probability distro; then Step 4 is Bayesian instance > generation...] > > A system like this may be constructible without any kind of deep AGI or > insight into humor. It might not work perfectly, but humans' sense of humor > is not perfect either. Yet it would lack any real insight or originality. > And it would only do this one application, without ability to generalize. > > We have not yet plumbed the full depths of narrow AI, I feel. Nowhere near.
But what if I like political humor? And recognizing video of a dog falling in a toilet doesn't seem like an easy problem to me. But let's simplify the problem. Is it possible to write a text-only joke detector? Exactly what makes a joke funny? Suppose we take thousands of jokes with various ratings for degrees of funniness and feed it to a machine learning algorithm. Ignore the fact for now that a joke isn't funny the second time you hear it. What features are you looking for? What features make a joke funny? Can you even tell me why a particular joke is funny or not funny? What qualities of "bad AGI poetry" did you use to pick the ones to post on your blog, and could you have written a program to do it? If this is narrow AI, why hasn't somebody done this 20 years ago? -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
