A good pun is like a good steak — a rare medium well done. In such a prey on words, rare, medium, and well done are double entendres, so that six meanings are packed into the space ordinarily occupied ...

While AI can produce a perfectly structured joke, it often has absolutely no clue why that joke is supposed to be funny.

Reporting from Beijing — It just got a little less fun to be a headline writer in China. China’s media regulators have put out a new edict to copywriters, directing them to keep their groaners to ...

A new research has found that artificial intelligence (AI) has a hard time understanding puns. Researchers noted that Large Language Models (LLMs) will flag jokes even when the pun was removed from ...

"No pun intended" is a phrase we hear a lot, but as Lee Cowan found out, there's an annual gathering in Texas where puns are not only intended, they're encouraged -- and so are the groans: The signs ...

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