AI sucks at telling jokes — but it’s great at analyzing them

Have you heard the one about the algorithm that tells hilarious jokes? Me neither — but I have seen AI gags bomb like US presidents. Stand-up robots, improvised joke generators, Q&A pun systems, and android bartenders have all failed to make me laugh. “You can get a rum and coke anywhere,” Brian Connors, a hospitality professor, told the Miami Herald, “but how often are you going to get it from a robot that tells bad jokes?” More often than you m