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Humor Us

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Is There a Human-Computer Relationship?

Computational humor can get dangerously offensive very quickly, especially if it's trying too hard. Could we get to a place where these programs are good enough to be reliably funny and make these interactions a little more enjoyable? It's also a bit of a philosophical one around art because comedy is a form of art. And I think humor is an example of that, where a joke was not written by a human. Is that still funny? In some ways it is. I think it's definitely testing the limits of what human-computer relations can look like.

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