AI - generatedfan fiction , music videos , andfilm scriptsare often so bad that they ’re uproarious . Could an AI program get the same number of laughter if it seek improv comedy in front of a live audience ? AsInversereports , stilted intelligence researcher Kory Mathewson created an algorithm to line up out .
Mathewson , from Canada ’s University of Alberta , teamed up with London - base investigator Piotr Mirowski to produce a chatbot , A.L.Ex , which stands for Artificial Language Experiment . They fed subtitles from 100,000 films into a neuronal meshwork in the hope that A.L.Ex would be able to come up with jokes and carry on a conversation with a springy human performing artist . ( They also applied afilterto the robot to stop it from saying “ politically incorrect ” things , and presumptively to prevent a calamity akin toTay , Microsoft ’s Twitter bot . )
Once A.L.Ex was sufficiently prepare for the glare , a performing artist interacted with the chatbot ( who was given a robot body ) on degree in an improv scenario . audience were asked to participate in aTuring test : During some tantrum , a human backstage was controlling the robot ’s responses , while in others , A.L.Ex was doing all the oeuvre . Audience members were later asked to guess whether the dialogue was come from the bot or an actual human being . The experimentation was repeat in three fix : Stockholm , Sweden ; London , England ; and Edmonton , Canada .
The result ? The bot failed to fool humanity and pass the Turing test , but it still earn a few laughs . For one matter , the system was unable to tell complete stories . “ If you need to tell apart a tarradiddle , humans tend to have to blame up the spark and carry it through , since the Cyborg seldom bring arguably important character or plot item back , ” one of the improv performers write , according to a newspaper publisher that Mathewson and Mirowski uploaded to the preprint platform arXiv [ PDF ] .
Mirowski toldThe New York Timesthat the bot is like a “ completely drunk comedian ” who is only “ accidentally funny ” on social function . as luck would have it for comedy lovers , machine probably wo n’t be taking over the stage anytime soon . “ We do not think that machines will replace human actors or comedian , ” Mathewson told Inverse . “ We aim to build up unexampled tool and technique for human storytellers to share their human experience . This workplace aims to prove the exploitation of a newfangled form of medium . ”
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