AISep 5, 2023
Belief revision and incongruity: is it a joke?
arXiv:2309.02009v13 citationsh-index: 112
Originality Synthesis-oriented
AI Analysis
This is an incremental contribution to AI and cognitive science, addressing humor understanding for agents, but it lacks broad applicability or SOTA impact.
The paper tackles the problem of formalizing how an agent processes humor by modeling belief revision, surprise, and norm violation when listening to a joke, but it does not provide concrete numerical results.
Incongruity often makes people laugh. You have to be smart to say stupid things. It requires to be even smarter for understanding them. This paper is a shameless attempt to formalize this intelligent behavior in the case of an agent listening to a joke. All this is a matter of revision of beliefs, surprise and violation of norms.