Microsoft's new AI system is learning to be funny with the help of The New Yorker

[Windows Central]

Microsoft is developing a new AI system that is learning what's considered to be funny, at least by the standards of The New Yorker magazine. The system is designed to weed out below-average submissions to the magazine's weekly cartoon caption contest so that human editors can concentrate on the ones that might actually be picked to win.

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