Robots Tackle Japanese Storytelling: Lessons from Rakugo
You might think that teaching a robot to tell jokes is a piece of cake. But not so fast! Researchers tried to get a robot to master rakugo, a traditional Japanese form of storytelling. They gave the robot a speech synthesizer so it could mimic human storytellers. The goal? To see how the robot's jokes stacked up against real people. The robot's voice was pretty conv...