From: LiveScience
Why Computers Can’t Make It as Stand-Up Comics
March 11, 2011
LiveScience:
Computers may have beaten us in chess and “Jeopardy!” — but can they create and tell a good joke?
Fortunately for comedians like Jon Stewart, who verbally sparred with a right-wing doppleganger of “Jeopardy!”-winning computer Watson on his show this week, any computer cracking wise is likely to need human writers for the foreseeable future.
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