Massachusetts developers create sarcasm-detecting bot
Researchers from MIT have created an automated bot that can detect sarcasm. The scientists happened upon the technology while developing a way to automatically filter out racism online. The bot uses deep learning to recognise patterns in emoji. During training, the bot scanned 55 billion tweets, and was able to identify sarcasm with 82% accuracy, where humans achieved only 76%. The discovery could be the first step on the road to the identification of human emotion by AIs and digital devices.
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