Subject: Re: Markov-chain prediction tools for stand-up comedy (NOT a humor
post)
From: Daryl McCullough
Newsgroups: sci.lang, sci.math, sci.stat.math, comp.ai.nat-lang
basilwhite says...
>I'm a standup comedian, and I'm trying to exploit the available
>knowledge in cognitive science about text prediction in order to
>improve the way humor text is edited. I'm under no illusions that
>machines can write humor better than a human (yet)...
They all laughed when I said I wanted to build a joke-telling machine.
Well, I showed them! Nobody's laughing *now*!