Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shah, Huma
• Warwick, Kevin

Titel

Machine humour: examples from Turing test experiments

Ist Teil von

• AI & society, 2017-11, Vol.32 (4), p.553-561

Ort / Verlag

London: Springer London

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this paper, we look at the possibility of a machine having a sense of humour. In particular, we focus on actual machine utterances in Turing test discourses. In doing so, we do not consider the Turing test in depth and what this might mean for humanity, rather we merely look at cases in conversations when the output from a machine can be considered to be humorous. We link such outpourings with Turing’s “arguments from various disabilities” used against the concept of a machine being able to think, taken from his seminal work of 1950. Finally we consider the role that humour might play in adding to the deception, integral to the Turing test, that a machine in practice appears to be a human.