[ExI] AI humor

[BillK]

On 19 February 2017 at 19:59, spike  wrote:
>
> Wordplay is big fun, but even bigger is niche humor.  I was at a gathering
> of friends last night.  Nearly everyone there is science/technical sorts,
> ladies included.  So while we were carving nanoGeezers, I googled up Wolfram
> Alpha and asked for a physics joke, being as our surgeon guest took his
> undergrad degrees double major in physics and engineering.  It gave me this:
>
> ... two neutrinos went through a bar...
>
> We laughed at that silly joke like a bunch of stoners, but there was zero
> drugs or alcohol at that party.  Why?  It was one of those insider things,
> hard to explain.  After I told it, the thought occurred to me that this
> might be the shortest joke known, six words.  Then today Adrian uncorks:
> There there, they're their heirs.  This is sorta five and a half words.
>
> Conclusion: humor is weird.  The neutrino bar joke might be the shortest
> known non-wordplay gag.
>


One of my all-time favourite cartoons that always makes me smile is the
scientist standing in front of a huge blackboard covered in diagrams
and complex formulae. Near the bottom of the diagram is a box
containing the words "Here magic happens".

BillK