

Mitra Azizirad, corporate vice president for AI marketing at Microsoft, said the Laugh Battle is an example of how AI is making an impact far beyond the tech industry. “I continued to perform standup through my college career, and even in the business world I’ve always found a way to incorporate humor and comedy, using it for team building or including funny anecdotes in speeches,” she noted. She got her first steady standup gig from her third-grade teacher, who carved out time – every Thursday from 3:00 to 3:30 pm – to corral Azizirad’s free-form approach to teacher imitations and comedic takes on the week’s events. The fact that AI is being used in an exhibit at the nation’s first museum dedicated to the culture of comedy resonates with Azizirad on a personal level. “Nothing does that better than laughter.” “We are making AI accessible to everyone, expanding it beyond the world of developers and data scientists to every person – especially in ways that are universally understood and touch the heart,” she said. Mitra Azizirad, corporate vice president for AI marketing at Microsoft, said it’s an example of how AI is making an impact far beyond the tech industry. Microsoft artificial intelligence technology from Azure Cognitive Services is the behind-the-scenes judge of whether a player’s joke gets a laugh. 1 in the hometown of comedy icon Lucille Ball. “It gives visitors a taste of what that thing is that comedians get so addicted to, that incredible feeling of making someone laugh,” said Journey Gunderson, the executive director of the museum, which opened to the public Aug. Q: What did the janitor say when he popped out of the closet?ĭid you laugh? The joke is one of 100 pre-scripted zingers offered to players of Laugh Battle, an interactive exhibit at the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, that invites guests to challenge each other to see who can make the other crack a smile.
