The Inquisitr - Tech

The field of artificial intelligence and robotics is evolving rapidly. While most of the progress seems to be positive, one computational linguist is warning that including humor in an AI system could be detrimental to the human race. The scientist, Kiki Hempelmann from Texas A&M University-Commerce, noted the following, according to The Daily Mail.

“Artificial intelligence will never get jokes like humans do. In themselves, they have no need for humour. They completely miss context. Teaching AI systems humour is dangerous because they may find it where it isn’t and they may use it where it’s inappropriate. Maybe bad AI will start killing people because it thinks it is funny.”

While Hempelmann believes robots could live without humor, it hasn’t stopped other scientists from working on it. For example, Dr. Julia Rayz from Purdue University has worked getting on computers to understand humor for the past 15 years.

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