Joint development of Microsoft and the newspaper the New Yorker needs to teach computers to distinguish funny jokes from those who are "not very". It was needed to somehow to cope with the flood of cartoons sent in by readers to the competition. Since artificial intelligence is able to recognize only the pictures, the context of the cartoon pictures had words to describe.

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Joint development of Microsoft and the newspaper the New Yorker needs to teach computers to distinguish funny jokes from those who are "not very". It was needed to somehow to cope with the flood of cartoons sent in by readers to the competition. Since artificial intelligence is able to recognize only the pictures, the context of the cartoon pictures had words to describe.

as a result, the selection of funny cartoons most often coincide with the editor's choice. All selected recent works appeared in 55.8% of the sample AI. This automation was able to weed out 2200 contest works from 5000, which The New Yorker receives every week. This greatly saved time editor who had to clean up a big pile of "bayans".

reportedly, in the future this technology can be used for projects such as simultaneous translator for Skype. The ultimate goal is to teach computers to joke yourself.