Yes, wordplay jokes are the low-hanging fruit of computational humor, but they’re still jokes if they’re written well.

Witscript writes jokes like that. It’s the first AI to improvise original, contextually integrated jokes, and it’s patented.

Here’s the research poster, a road map to the future of AI-generated jokes:

Why do some people think “puns aren’t funny”? I’m a comedy writer and I can tell you exactly why. It’s because many puns lack one or more of the characteristics of a good joke.

Computers won’t be bad at jokes for long. Comedy is not that mysterious. We humans should stop patting ourselves on the back just because we can make a wisecrack.