Archive for December 2025
A robot walks into a bar: can a Melbourne researcher get AI to do comedy?
Machines can be funny when they mistakenly bump into things – but standup is a tough gig even for humans
Robots can make humans laugh – mostly when they fall over – but a new research project is looking at whether robots using AI could ever be genuinely funny.
If you ask ChatGPT for a funny joke, it will serve you up something that belongs in a Christmas cracker: “Why don’t skeletons fight each other? Because they don’t have the guts.”
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