On 25 March 2015 at 06:23, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > Most people can't do that either. And researchers at the University of > Edinburgh made a machine that can write jokes such as "I like my > relationships like I like my source, open". Well OK maybe it's not a > particularly funny joke but it's a start. Or maybe the computer just didn't > tell it right. > > That's quite funny, but it suffers from being a joke that only makes sense if the teller is human (because presumably the computer doesn't have that sort of relationships). So it kind of falls into the humorous equivalent of uncanny valley.
It is however a rather clever joke, and would be fine if told be a computer *programmer* (who occasionally have relationships with other people, I believe). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
