{"product_id":"your-wit-is-my-command-isbn-9780262045995","title":"Your Wit Is My Command","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn accessible, entertaining look into how we can use artificial intelligence to make smart machines funny—for fans of computers and comedy alike.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost robots and smart devices are not known for their joke-telling abilities. And yet, as computer scientist Tony Veale explains in \u003ci\u003eYour Wit Is My Command\u003c\/i\u003e, machines are not inherently unfunny; they are just programmed that way. By examining the mechanisms of humor and jokes—how jokes actually works—Veale shows that computers can be built with a sense of humor, capable not only of producing a joke but also of appreciating one. Along the way, he explores the humor-generating capacities of fictional robots ranging from B-9 in \u003ci\u003eLost in Space\u003c\/i\u003e to TARS in I\u003ci\u003enterstellar\u003c\/i\u003e, maps out possible scenarios for developing witty robots, and investigates such aspects of humor as puns, sarcasm, and offensiveness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn order for robots to be funny, Veale explains, we need to analyze humor computationally. Using artificial intelligence (AI), Veale shows that joke generation is a knowledge-based process—a sense of humor is blend of wit \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e wisdom. He notes that existing technologies can detect sarcasm in conversation, and explains how some jokes can be pre-scripted while others are generated algorithmically—all while making the technical aspects of AI accessible for the general reader. Of course, there's no single algorithm or technology that we can plug in to make our virtual assistants or GPS voice navigation funny, but Veale provides a computational roadmap for how we might get there.Foreword \u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e1 Does Not Compute: Why Our Machines Need a Sense of Humor\u003cbr\u003e2 It's a Joke, Jim, But Not as we Know It: A Tour of Scholarly Perspectives and Theories of Humor\u003cbr\u003e3 Tweet my Shorts: Twitterbots Can Turn Our Theories into Simple Practice\u003cbr\u003e4 Double Trouble: Humorous Storytelling and Embodied AI\u003cbr\u003e5 Practical Magic: Systematic Approaches to Joke Creation\u003cbr\u003e6 Danger, Danger: Incongruity and the Time Course of Jokes\u003cbr\u003e7 Wit Happens: Computational Models of Punning and Wordplay\u003cbr\u003e8 Physics Envy: Quantitative Approaches to Humor Analysis\u003cbr\u003e9 Taking Exception: Computational Treatments of Sarcasm and Irony\u003cbr\u003e10 At Wit's End: Lessons for the Future\u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex“A consistently enjoyable treatise on the relationship between AI and humor. Without dissecting a single frog and never once resorting to an old joke, Veale adds flavor to his algorithms by simply adding Boolean cubes. The book is an absolute joy to read.”\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Delia Carmela Chiaro, Professor of English Language and Translation, Alma mater studiorum, University of Bologna  \u003c\/b\u003eTony Veale is Associate Professor of Computer Science at University College Dublin, with a focus on computational creativity. He is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eTwitterbots: Making Machines That Make Meaning\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299708227813,"sku":"NP9780262045995","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262045995.jpg?v=1767744824","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/your-wit-is-my-command-isbn-9780262045995","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}