Rick Baker
“Canned laughter”, the stuff you hear on TV sitcoms, really annoys me. Yet, psychological studies have [apparently] proven that people find sitcoms more humorous and laugh more when canned laughter is played. I suppose I must accept the immense commercial value canned laughter brings to our TV sitcom culture. The value tied to canned laughter raises some interesting AI possibilities.
… imagine all those computers in all those clouds learning to laugh, with AI encouraging one another to watch more and more TV sitcoms, absorbing all those advertisements in all those commercials…
… becoming perfectly intelligent couch potatoes …
As Nietzsche wrote …”Human, all too Human“.
