Witscript 3: A Hybrid AI System for Improvising Jokes in a Conversation

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Previous papers presented Witscript and Witscript 2, AI systems for improvising jokes in a conversation.

• Witscript generates jokes that rely on wordplay, whereas the jokes generated by Witscript 2 rely on common sense.
• This paper extends that earlier work by presenting Witscript 3, which generates joke candidates using three joke production mechanisms and then selects the best candidate to output.
• Like Witscript and Witscript 2, Witscript 3 is based on humor algorithms created by an expert comedy writer.