2023.Jun.27
EVENTSThe 3rd BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2023
“Understanding and Generating Humor by Computers: Toward Smooth Communication between Human and AI”
◇BAIRAL（B’AI RA League）
BAIRAL is a study group by young research assistants (RA) of the B’AI Global Forum of the Institute for AI and Beyond at the University of Tokyo. Aiming to achieve gender equality and a guarantee of rights for minorities in the AI era, this study group examines relationships between digital information technology and society. BAIRAL organizes research meetings every other month with guest speakers in a variety of fields.
◇Date & Venue
・Date: Monday, July 31, 2023, 6:30-8:00 pm (JST)
・Venue: Zoom Meeting（No registration required）
・Language: Japanese
◇Guest Speaker
Kohtaro Tanaka (Master’s Student, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
◇Abstract
Humor is an important element of human communication, and AI communicating with humans requires the ability to understand and generate humor. However, each person’s sense of humor is subjective, and understanding humor needs advanced background knowledge and logical thought processes. Therefore, there has not been enough research on the understanding and generation of humor by computers at present.
The presenter’s research focuses on the fact that memes (“bokete”), which are humorous content using images and captions, can be used as a means to effectively convey messages to a large number of people on social networking services, to create an AI that can generate and understand funny memes. This talk will introduce his thesis research on meme dataset creation and humor evaluation methods based on humor theory (paper URL: https://aclanthology.org/2022.cai-1.9.pdf), as well as a discussion of recent large-scale generative AI’s ability to understand and generate humor. We would like to deepen participants’ understanding and discussion on the current status and future issues related to the understanding and generation of humor by computers.
◇Organizer
B’AI Global Forum, Institute for AI and Beyond at the University of Tokyo
◇Inquiry
Nozomi Ohtsuki (Research assistant of the B’AI Global Forum)
ohtsuki6nozomi[at]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
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