{"id":149589,"date":"2022-11-06T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/empathizing-with-humans-scientists-have-created-a-robot-that-can-laugh-with-you"},"modified":"2022-11-06T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T19:24:09","slug":"empathizing-with-humans-scientists-have-created-a-robot-that-can-laugh-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/empathizing-with-humans-scientists-have-created-a-robot-that-can-laugh-with-you","title":{"rendered":"Empathizing With Humans \u2014 Scientists Have Created a Robot That Can Laugh With You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/empathizing-with-humans-scientists-have-created-a-robot-that-can-laugh-with-you.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>To foster empathy in conversation, scientists at Kyoto University developed a shared-laughter AI system that reacts properly to human laughter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What makes something hilarious has baffled philosophers and scientists since at least the time of inquiring minds like Plato. The Greeks believed that feeling superior at others\u2019 expense was the source of humor. Sigmund Freud, a German psychologist, thought humor was a means to let off pent-up energy. In order to make people laugh, US comedian Robin Williams tapped his anger at the absurd.<\/p>\n<p>No one appears to be able to agree on the answer to the question, \u201cWhat\u2019s so funny?\u201d So picture attempting to train a robot to laugh. But by creating an AI that gets its signals from a shared laughing system, a team of researchers at <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/kyoto-university\/>Kyoto University<\/a> in Japan is trying to do that. The researchers describe their novel technique for creating a funny bone for the Japanese robot \u2018Erica\u2019 in the journal <em>Frontiers in Robotics and AI<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To foster empathy in conversation, scientists at Kyoto University developed a shared-laughter AI system that reacts properly to human laughter. What makes something hilarious has baffled philosophers and scientists since at least the time of inquiring minds like Plato. The Greeks believed that feeling superior at others\u2019 expense was the source of humor. Sigmund Freud, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}