Micro$oft Creates an AI That Can Spot a Joke In a New Yorker Cartoon

" 'The process of looking at 5,000 caption entries a week usually destroys their mind in about two years, and then I get a new one,' Mankoff says. But now thanks to a collaboration with Microsoft, Bob may finally have found the perfect helper. Researchers have been working on an artificial intelligence project to teach a computer what's funny.' " It is probably just as well to try and automate such soul-killing drudge work out of existence. But who's gonna explain the concept of "humor" to the spergy Micro$ofties?