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New Yorker

How New Yorker Cartoons Could Teach Computers To Be Funny

Posted on March 23, 2016

“The computer models Nowak and his team are developing are called adaptive crowdsourcing algorithms. They attempt to weed out the weakest captions as quickly as possible to get more people to vote on the potential …

Posted in LUCID, Machine LearningTagged Machine Learning, New Yorker, Rob Nowak

The Science of Funny: Active Machine Learning & Cartoons

Posted on November 24, 2015

The New Yorker is using a machine learning system developed by WID Optimization researchers to sort through captions for their weekly cartoon caption contest.

Posted in LUCID, Machine LearningTagged Machine Learning, New Yorker, Rob Nowak
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