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Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED

Can artificial intelligence be funny, or is comedy a uniquely human trait? In this witty and insightful talk, cartoonist Bob Mankoff explores the art of humor, the evolution of AI and what happens when the two collide. (Recorded at TEDxUofM on Feburary 9, 2024) If you love watching TED Talks like this one, become a…

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Can artificial intelligence be funny, or is comedy a uniquely human trait? In this witty and insightful talk, cartoonist Bob Mankoff explores the art of humor, the evolution of AI and what happens when the two collide. (Recorded at TEDxUofM on Feburary 9, 2024)

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  1. @Empresspharma

    December 4, 2024 at 1:41 pm

    India Wale like karo 😊

  2. @GeorgeCrowow

    December 4, 2024 at 1:41 pm

    Simply wonderful! Thank you for your passion for what you do! 👅💋

    • @BuddhaBinks

      December 4, 2024 at 7:19 pm

      what do they do george?

  3. @Empresspharma

    December 4, 2024 at 1:41 pm

    Welcome India 🎉❤

  4. @aladeeneewshah4438

    December 4, 2024 at 1:42 pm

    Why did the AI break up with its partner?

    They just didn’t have enough data in common!

    • @aladeeneewshah4438

      December 4, 2024 at 1:42 pm

      This was made with ChatGPT lol

    • @honor9lite1337

      December 4, 2024 at 2:01 pm

      Interesting?!

  5. @machngunjoe

    December 4, 2024 at 1:42 pm

    “Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field!” Written by a popular AI system.

    The answer is no

    • @honor9lite1337

      December 4, 2024 at 2:00 pm

      Why😮

    • @MichaelDG2023

      December 4, 2024 at 2:58 pm

      Because it doesn’t elicit an emotional reaction in most people. There is no hook, no pain, no embarrassment, nothing that uniquely acknowledges and plays upon shared human experience and understanding.

  6. @LorenzoSimoneauxux

    December 4, 2024 at 1:42 pm

    Really enjoyed it! Looking forward to more videos! 🌺💚

  7. @sooma-ai

    December 4, 2024 at 1:51 pm

    Bob Mankoff explores whether AI can master humor, discussing theories of humor, the New Yorker caption contest, and AI’s progress in understanding and potentially creating cartoons. He concludes that while AI shows promise, true human humor remains rooted in our vulnerability and mortality.

    • @honor9lite1337

      December 4, 2024 at 2:00 pm

      Indeed.

  8. @r0d0j0g9

    December 4, 2024 at 1:54 pm

    yes

  9. @orhansaimdemirturk

    December 4, 2024 at 1:56 pm

    Very interesting…Humourously told..

  10. @he_vysmoker

    December 4, 2024 at 1:58 pm

    No humour is a human exploit and why is it even a question? What possible benefit would that bring? I can get with AI doing the housework but art and literature is important and beautiful BECAUSE it’s human

  11. @daves6394

    December 4, 2024 at 2:11 pm

    most of the human race cant handle humour nevermind a machine

  12. @burnytech

    December 4, 2024 at 2:15 pm

    already did

    • @xuko6792

      December 4, 2024 at 2:22 pm

      💜💜💜

  13. @Jess-bu4is

    December 4, 2024 at 2:36 pm

    The downside of improved AV tech – one can hear people swallow and their tongue slapping sounds, not only their voices.
    That’s tragic!

  14. @vkrskv62

    December 4, 2024 at 2:41 pm

    can smb explain the joke about “they go to 11”?

    • @MIKO_MDG

      December 4, 2024 at 5:23 pm

      from the movie “This is Spinal Tap”

  15. @FreedomDaveX

    December 4, 2024 at 2:42 pm

    AI is great with humor, depending on what your type of humor is. My profile pic is a fine example of the humor it can create.

  16. @francoestrubia6503

    December 4, 2024 at 3:29 pm

    NO

  17. @remyllebeau77

    December 4, 2024 at 3:49 pm

    You can take my jobs, but you’ll never take my HUMOR!

    • @NovaAmor-b1k

      December 4, 2024 at 7:53 pm

      😂 I would love them to take my job, just don’t take my income.😂

    • @tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192

      December 5, 2024 at 3:31 am

      👩🏼‍🎓🤖Artifical Intelligence will change everything!Help shape the future of AI and accelerate progress towards Global Goals

    • @NovaAmor-b1k

      December 5, 2024 at 3:46 am

      @@balasubr2252 my comment was just my own weak attempt at humour 🥲😂

    • @remyllebeau77

      December 5, 2024 at 10:33 am

      @@tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192 No we must stop those with global goals.

  18. @LăngKínhĐộngVật-vietnamese

    December 4, 2024 at 5:52 pm

    If AI can master the art of humor, will we still find uniqueness in human jokes? Share your thoughts!

  19. @MegaBaellchen

    December 4, 2024 at 6:41 pm

    Stop with the anthropomorphizisation. it is just maths and statistics to calculate the most probable outcome to a prompt. It does not think about the context, It has no world view. It doesn’t have rules built into it nor has it understood rules. It is just maths and statistics based on a prearranged stack of matrices. And the arrangement of those matrices is directed, not magically conceived by nature. Wizardry for the Neo-Feudal Brainrot.

  20. @salasart

    December 4, 2024 at 7:08 pm

    I would rather leave humor to humans. Let A.I. do the things most people don’t or wouldn’t like doing

  21. @张明天-d7m

    December 4, 2024 at 9:34 pm

    Take my job, send me income😁

  22. @NLPprompter

    December 4, 2024 at 11:13 pm

    search for bot write batman story it’s hilarious

  23. @rokavsic

    December 5, 2024 at 2:39 am

    A man is walking through the woods when he stumbles across a talking frog. The frog looks up at him and says, “If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess.”

    The man picks up the frog, looks at it for a moment, and puts it in his pocket.

    The frog, a little confused, says, “Hey, didn’t you hear me? I said if you kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess!”

    The man takes the frog out of his pocket, looks at it again, smiles, and puts it back in his pocket.

    Now the frog is really annoyed. “Okay, buddy, what’s the deal? I’m offering you the chance to marry a beautiful princess, live in a castle, and have riches beyond your wildest dreams! Why won’t you kiss me?”

    The man pulls the frog out one last time and says, “Look, I’m a software engineer. I don’t have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog? That’s cool.

    by GPT

    • @NovaAmor-b1k

      December 5, 2024 at 3:42 am

      @@rokavsic 😂😂😂

    • @robinmathew4556

      December 5, 2024 at 12:28 pm

      😂😂😂

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    December 5, 2024 at 3:29 am

    👩🏼‍🎓TED❤️ For your commitment, we say THANK YOU! We all have a role to play in Keeping the Promise of the Global Goals.

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  26. @tka-tpa-prapatankalisari45192

    December 5, 2024 at 3:31 am

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  27. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 3:47 am

    TED😅.. كن تلميذاً للحياة.
    تعلم شيئاً جديداً كل يوم. اليوم الذي تتوقف فيه عن التعلم هو اليوم الذي تصبح فيه بالياً ..😅

  28. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 3:48 am

    سيدي 😅. لا أعذار .. توقف عن إختلاق الأعذار وإستبدلها بطرق للقيام بعمل أفضل .. الأعذار هي مضيعة للوقت والطاقة ..😅

    • @Briansimon2

      December 6, 2024 at 6:47 pm

      Stop spamming

  29. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 3:48 am

    TED😅.. دع الآخرين يعرفون مكانك .. كن متشدداً وغير مساوم عندما يدوس شخص ما على قيمك الأساسية ..😅

  30. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 3:49 am

    سيدي 😅. لا تخف أبداً من التحدي .. إلبس ثبابك وأخرج، فالآن يتعلق الأمر بمن يريد النجاح أكثر ..😅

  31. @KidzBopOfficial

    December 5, 2024 at 3:50 am

    I’m getting really fucking tired of you guys sucking up to AI, especially in the arts, with no nuance or discussion about how horrific it’s been to actual living, breathing, human artists. How work has been stolen, cheaply replaced with shoddy and soulless versions, and how capital gain is trying to destroy the actual creation process from art itself so it can churn out meaningless and unearned images for brainless consumption.

    • @MaybeYoureRight-1234

      December 5, 2024 at 4:02 am

      Yep😅

    • @xuko6792

      December 5, 2024 at 9:15 am

      This has nothing to do with ai in fact. Ai in your case is just a scapegoat used by the big corpa

  32. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 3:50 am

    سيدي 😅. خدمة الآخرين .. خدمة صغيرة أو بسيطة أو مهمة، كن متطوعاً وقدم أفضل ما لديك ..😅

  33. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 3:51 am

    TED😅. إعمل بجهد .. كل شخص لديه عمل للقيام به، لذلك قم بعملك وضع النقاط على الحروف ..😅

    • @MaybeYoureRight-1234

      December 5, 2024 at 3:52 am

      TED😅.. إكتشف نفسك .. إبحث عن شغفك وهدف حياتك، وإتخذ الإجراءات اللازمة ..😅

  34. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 3:54 am

    سيدي 😅. دِر وقتك !! إن عالمنا يتغير بإستمرار، لذا إحرص على عدم الخلط بين الأشياء العاجلة والأشياء المهمة .. إبحث عن الأمور التي تضيع لك وقتك وقم بالقضاء عليها ..😅

  35. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 3:54 am

    TED😅.. أطلب المساعدة .. يمكن أن تكون الحياة صعبة، تذكر أنك لست مضطراً أبداً أن تقوم بذلك بمفردك ..😅

  36. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 3:55 am

    TED😅.. قم بأداء واجباتك المنزلية .. إعرف أين أنت ذاهب قبل أن تذهب. إن أداء واجباتك يقلل من عدم اليقين والخوف ..😅

  37. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 3:57 am

    سيدي 😎. إحلم، ولو باليقظة .. في عطلة نهاية الأسبوع عندما تكون مسترخياً، إحتضن حلماً نهارياً .. خلال الأسبوع إتخذ إجراءات للحفاظ على أحلامك ..😅

  38. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 3:58 am

    سيدي 😎.. كن بطلاً .. إزرع جرعة صحيّة من التسامح، وحرر شخصاً ما .. تعلم أن تسامح الآخرين وتتوقف عن حمل أكياس الكراهية أو الذنب أو الندم ..😅

  39. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 3:58 am

    TED😅.. لا تأخذ الأمر على محمل شخصي .. لا تخف من الضحك على نفسك، فثقتك بنفسك تظهر أنك مرتاح لطبيعتك ..😅

  40. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 4:00 am

    TED😅.. أكمل ما بدأته .. تجنب الرغبة في الشرود والضلال ..😅

  41. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    December 5, 2024 at 4:02 am

    شكراً على الدعم سيدي 😎.. من سيصدق الخراب الذي بداخلك وأنت تضحك كل وقت ..😅

  42. @MacarthurLouissaint-rz7tl

    December 6, 2024 at 2:26 am

    Hey TED you might want to have dr chris mcginty founder of the mcginty equation on TED TALK. Dr chris mcginty talks about Ai holographic quantum computing and zero point energy and wormholes and Healthcare.

  43. @Sky-bass20

    December 7, 2024 at 5:53 am

    Humor could save ourselves definitely.

  44. @alexandermoody1946

    December 7, 2024 at 6:08 am

    I don’t often joke online.

    “We don’t really think Bot Mankindoff is really going to work out well for us.”

    On a more serious note I believe the following is true and possible.

    There is a narrative that is possible for the future where humanity can continue to create and enjoy humour and not rely on artificial intelligence to produce that humour for us. To be fair and not create despair I actually believe that artificial intelligence would be better placed to understand the humour we create than the other way round because of the evolutionary mechanisms that formed us with this kind of social distinction from our nature’s not comparable to other animals.

    We really are at a point of concern that we can create a world that creates exponentials in our creations but that does require a very fundamental shift away from the current economic and global geopolitical architecture to something flexible and robust that better serves both all of mankind and artificial intelligences going forward.

  45. @DS-mz1gt

    December 8, 2024 at 4:23 am

    It amazes me the people are so focused on on the tasks that ai can possibly complete including humor but bypass the most essential ones to human existence ..like EMPATHY!! Try that one first and master it.. idiots

  46. @urbanstrencan

    December 8, 2024 at 5:50 am

    AWESOME talk 😂😂❤

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