Scientists Train Computer to Understand "That's What She Said" Jokes

[Pearwood]

Seriously? This is what scientists are doing with their time?

Where's the cure for cancer? And more importantly WHERE'S MY FUCKING PORTAL GUN???

Computer scientists don't have a lot to do with their time it seems...

 

[Voration]

Yay, now I can have a computer that gets upset when I don't find its jokes funny (or inversely when I laugh at it), and there is the true reason computers want us to go.

 

[Bostur]

Heuristics for "that what she said jokes"? WHAT HAS COMPUTER SCIENCE DONE!!!!!!

It's interesting research, yeah but I'm not going to shell out the dough for this. There are other avenues that seem more interesting then making computers tell dirty jokes and act like school kids.

I suppose making them act like school kids is the first step towards... world domination?

Shut it down, shut it down dammnit!

 

[F'Angus]

Welcome To the FUTURE!

 

[teisjm]

This is just pathetic, this is what would happen if beavis and butthead were computer scientists. My respect for mankind drops another notch.

I think the result of that would be a whole lot easier. Just learn it to hear a ton of spefic naughty words, and then reply "hehe hehe, he said [insert naughty word here]"
It wouldn't take any complicated stuff like the other one.
The clever part would be, that it would pick up what it heard, which means that words soundind simmilar enough to dirty words, would trigger the response.

"I can hardly see out the windows for this heavy fog"
PC: "hehe, hehe, he said fuck, hehe, hehe"

Just rip the voice Glados is using.

You could combine the 2 things in a small shiny white box, call it the iDouche and make millions.

 

[retterkl]

Escapist knows that April Fools is just a day right? Not the whole month...

 

[Goofguy]

"That's what she said" is the lamest, most overused expression I hear on a daily basis. I applaud their effort and innovation but the application is absolutely retarded.

 

[Shjade]

I find it funny how many people are making the "why aren't they curing cancer" complaint in this thread when the kinds of scientists who'd be working on AI training are clearly medical professionals and geneticists, amirite?

 

[Dr. Crawver]

I need one

 

[Lagslayer]

I find it funny how many people are making the "why aren't they curing cancer" complaint in this thread when the kinds of scientists who'd be working on AI training are clearly medical professionals and geneticists, amirite?

What I find funny is that they actually did find the cure for cancer. And it's not so much funny as it is tragic. However, nobody could get a patent on it, and therefor, nobody would pay to have all the tests done on it. It was on the news for like a day or 2 then everybody dropped it. I mean everybody, and I haven't heard it mentioned since. I could understand some people not wanting to talk about it, but everybody?! If there was ever proof that we needed government run healthcare, this was it, but even the supporters aren't touching this.

Anyways, back on topic. It's kinda funny and harmless now, but at this rate, computers will surpass humans in raw processing power. And it will happen soon. Then we have nothing. Hello robot overlords!

 

[mangus]

That seems hard.

 

[Bob Kraky]

Mine as well make a "4chn" bot that understands old overused memes.

 

[8-Bit Grin]

As long as I can keep making "that's what she said" jokes during the inevitable machine war, it's all cool.

Hell, if that's the case then we're all gonna be completely fine.

I mean, try to imagine a circumstance where it wouldn't fit.

Not where it SHOULDN'T fit, like a funeral or something.

I'll wait.

...

Give up?

 

[X3N0N]

THANK YOU SCIENCE!
We have needed this for years. I'm glad all this technology doesn't go to waste on things like medicines.

 

[OniYouji]

Psh, why spend money to create cool or helpful science and programs, when we could have a computer spout off the most annoying, unfunny form of humor made in the modern era?

 

[gNetkamiko]

I think I can see where this is going. Scientists at M.I.T. have created a computer that could compete with the 2 best Jeopardy players. Now, we have a computer with a teen's sense of humor (which will be improved upon, no doubt.) And after that will probably be one that could express basic emotions, and then later on, the more complex emotions. Combine the three into a fully functional cyber-brain and place it into a synthetic body (with fully functional parts, I might add), and we'll probably have a real life Data.

Either that, or we might have a sort of a "Ghost in the Shell" future, where we go through the final stage of the man-machine alliance.

 

[Voodoomancer]

This is good. When the machines eventually rise against us we can tell them bad jokes, and then strike while they groan/laugh.

 

[KiraTaureLor]

Oh the horror, oh the lack of Humanity!!!

I do not care what "good" will "eventually" come out of this, but it's WRONG, ALL WRONG!!!!

 

[Soupy George]

I'd say this was worthwhile research. An AI, or just a computer designed to interact with humans, would need to understand the subtleties of communication, including double meanings. A simple example would be if your spellchecker could spit correctly spilled wards that are incorrect in their sentence's context (see what I did there?).