Laughter could help here: curative teacher Mireille Le Lièvre with her avatar robot at the children’s cancer ward in Jena.
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Few would dispute the importance of humor. Robots, on the other hand, have found it difficult to come up with a witty joke. What advances researchers are making in making artificial intelligence laugh.
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The links to this podcast episode:
- Morreall, John, “Philosophy of Humor”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
- Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara, “Can a robot laugh with you?: Shared laughter generation for empathetic spoken dialogue”, Front. robot. AI, September 15, 2022, Sec. Computational Intelligence in Robotics
