When the Robots Destroy Humanity, at Least They’ll Be Able to Crack Jokes About It

?From Physorg.com:

While computers can do just about anything
these days, having a sense of humor is not something they have been
capable of, that is until now. Chloe Kiddon and Yuriy Brun, computer
scientists from the University of Washington, have created a software
program capable of giving computers a sense of humor and the ability to
understand a specific type of double entendre.

The “that’s what she said” jokes happen when a simple and
innocent sentence can become a dirty joke with the addition of those
four little words at the end. The example they used was the sentence
“Don’t you think these buns are a little too big for this meat?”

In order to create the program, the researchers began by analyzing
text, including 1.5 million erotic sentences and 57,000 standard
literature sentences. They looked at adjectives, nouns and verbs with
high “sexiness” ratings such as “hot” and “meat.”

The new system, known as DEviaNT (Double Entendre via Noun Transfer),
rates sentences by looking at words that can be interpreted in more
than one way and the possibility that they would fit with the “that’s
what she said” scenario.

Using jokes they had gathered from online websites, they trained
DEviaNT and received around 72% accuracy, though they believe they could
increase that to 99.5%. They plan to present DEviaNT at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in June and plan to continue their work and expand DEviaNT’s joking ability.

Well, thank god. This way, when the Terminators corner us in the future, we can say “It’s been so hard for me in this post-apocalyptic future!” and buy ourselves a valuable second or two while their programming forces them to reply. Ooh! We can call it the Michael Scott program! Thanks to Ken T. for the tip.