{"id":21129,"date":"2025-12-07T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/a-robot-walks-into-a-bar-can-a-melbourne-researcher-get-ai-to-do-comedy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:37:24","slug":"a-robot-walks-into-a-bar-can-a-melbourne-researcher-get-ai-to-do-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/a-robot-walks-into-a-bar-can-a-melbourne-researcher-get-ai-to-do-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"A robot walks into a bar: can a Melbourne researcher get AI to do comedy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Machines can be funny when they mistakenly bump into things \u2013 but standup is a tough gig even for humans<\/p>\n

Robots can make humans laugh \u2013 mostly when they fall over<\/a> \u2013 but a new research project is looking at whether robots using AI could ever be genuinely funny.<\/p>\n

If you ask ChatGPT for a funny joke, it will serve you up something that belongs in a Christmas cracker: \u201cWhy don\u2019t skeletons fight each other? Because they don\u2019t have the guts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nMachines can be funny when they mistakenly bump into things \u2013 but standup is a tough gig even for humans
\nRobots can make humans laugh \u2013 mostly when they fall over \u2013 but a new research project is looking at whether robots using AI could ever be genuinely funny.
\nIf you ask ChatGPT for a funny joke, it will serve you up something that belongs in a Christmas cracker: \u201cWhy don\u2019t skeletons fight each other? Because they don\u2019t have the guts.\u201d
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Machines can be funny when they mistakenly bump into things \u2013 but standup is a tough gig even for humans Robots can make humans laugh \u2013 mostly when they fall over \u2013 but a new research project is looking at whether robots using AI could ever be genuinely funny. If you ask ChatGPT for a …<\/p>\n

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