In Which a Neural Network Learns to Tell Knock-Knock Jokes | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

The neural network can be trained to write recipes, invent Pokemon, and invent superhero names. But can it learn to tell a joke?


@researchbuzz generously provided me with a list of 200 knock-knock jokes - brief and highly formulaic, they seemed to be the form of joke best-suited for a neural network to reproduce. I figured it would quickly learn the formula, but would never, never manage to tell an actual joke.


It proved me wrong....