Taking another step in their ongoing quest to steal all the jobs in the world, a pair of computer scientists at the University of Edinburgh have created a computer program that can generate original ...

“If you could master any language in the world, what would it be?” “C++.” It’s a classic programming joke. The humor is ironic: language skills are less important than technological ones. Humor, I’m ...

A boy melon asks a girl melon to run off with him. She said,"We're too young -- we cantaloupe." OK, that might not be that funny to you, but to a University of Cincinnati computer, it's definitely a ...

That was the question a group of researchers—including The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff—asked in a study highlighted by Arxiv and MIT’s Technology Review. And really, asking why robots can ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh thought they had a brilliant idea. Could they turn a computer into a witty comic? They wrote a software program that mimics the most basic form of humor, the ...

READING, England -- Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions, all part of an annual test of artificial intelligence carried out at the University of Reading. Typing away at ...

When the robot apocalypse arrives, don’t be surprised if the machines crack jokes about our undoing. In a new research project, Microsoft has attempted to teach comedic values to computers. Using the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. “If you could master any language in the world, what would it be?” “C++.” It ...

“If you could master any language in the world, what would it be?” “C++.” It’s a classic programming joke. The humor is ironic: language skills are less important than technological ones. Humor, I’m ...

“If you could master any language in the world, what would it be?” “C++.” It’s a classic programming joke. The humor is ironic: language skills are less important than technological ones. Humor, I’m ...