Google claims its AI can understand humour
 

Which is more than most Americans

Google claims it has written some AI code which can actually understand humour and scarcasm, which is odd really given that is something the US has never really understood.

Google said that when a comedian says something sarcastic or controversial, usually the audience can discern the tone and know it's more of an exaggeration, something that's learned from years of human interaction.

Apparently, its PaLM, or Pathways Language Model, learned a person was joking without being explicitly trained on humour and the logic of jokes. After being fed two jokes, it was able to interpret them and spit out an explanation.

In a blog post, Google shows how PaLM understands a novel joke not found on the internet. The reason it was not found on the internet was probably because it was not funny. Basically, it was Google has just hired a sperm whale for its TPU team because it wanted someone who could communicate between pods.”

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