Abstract
In this paper, we look at the possibility of a machine having a sense of humour. In particular, we focus on actual machine utterances in Turing test discourses. In doing so, we do not consider the Turing test in depth and what this might mean for humanity, rather we merely look at cases in conversations when the output from a machine can be considered to be humorous. We link such outpourings with Turing’s “arguments from various disabilities” used against the concept of a machine being able to think, taken from his seminal work of 1950. Finally we consider the role that humour might play in adding to the deception, integral to the Turing test, that a machine in practice appears to be a human.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 553-561 |
| Journal | AI & Society |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 7 Jun 2016 |
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| Publication status | Published - Nov 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Due to publisher policy, the full text is not available on the repository until the 7th of June 2017.This article is currently in press. Full citation details will be uploaded when available.
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-016-0669-0
Keywords
- Deception detection
- Natural language
- Turing’s imitation game
- Chatbots
- Machine humour