Researchers say they’ve built an AI that can detect sarcasm

Researchers say they have trained an artificial intelligence model to be able to detect sarcasm, according to a Thursday report. The research was presented at the Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association in Ottawa by Netherlands-based researchers, according to the Guardian. Researchers said they trained the AI model using scenes from popular TV shows, focusing on Chandler Bing from Friends and Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. The data included Chandler responding to the idea of spending a day putting furniture together with, “Yes, and we’re...