The advancement of robotics to aid 21st century life has been remarkable in the last decade, however the concept of conversation has been a particular struggle for scientists. Now it has even been suggested that teaching artificial intelligence the complexities of the human language can have “dangerous” consequences to life. Kiki Hempelmann, a computational linguist who studies humour at Texas A&M University-Commerce, has claimed robots may even resort to “killing people because it thinks it is funny” if all goes wrong.
Mr Hempelmann said: “Artificial intelligence will never get jokes like humans do.
“In themselves, they have no need for humour. They completely miss context.
“Teaching AI systems humour is dangerous because they may find it where it isn't and they may use it where it's