VRL #5

My thoughts after reading Artificial Intelligence Can Now Craft Original Jokes — And That’s No Laughing Matter by Corrine Purtill in TIME:

It was interesting to note the differences and variations that are necessary to program in order for the robot to know how to perform and still get those laughs from the audience without showing the emotionless, computational, adaptiveness of a robot.

I connected that mechanical inputting to wait for the audience laughs whether they are long versus short or if a certain type of joke has been doing better than the other changing the order to the natural human experience. We do this all the time! We read contextual clues and need to be able to pivot to match the response we just got from our audience. This is more important in stand up comedy or comedy in general because it is reliant on an in-person audience/audience reaction. I can’t imagine there being much popularity for a robot who told jokes and continued to the next joke right away while the audience was still laughing. Without these mechanical inputs, the robot wouldn’t convey enough human absurdity to reel the audience in.