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“FAKE.” That’s Jim Paredes’ initial response when his sex video was released to the wild wild world of social media. He didn’t say, Joke, which a robot may not understand.

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In an AP piece, Kiki Hempelmann, a computational linguist, said, “Artificial intelligence will never get jokes like humans do. In themselves, they have no need for humor. They miss completely context.”

That same AP piece features this joke: “A robot walks into a bar. It goes CLANG.”

Haha!

Tristan Miller, computer scientist and linguist at Germany’s Darmstadt University of Technology, said, “Creative language—and humor in particular—is one of the hardest areas for computational intelligence to grasp. It’s because it relies so much on real-world knowledge—background knowledge and commonsense knowledge. A computer doesn’t have these real-world experiences to draw on. It only knows what you tell it and what it draws from.”

Allison Bishop, a Columbia University computer scientist and a stand-up comedian, said this is great news for comedians who are now assured robots could never replace them.

There are now all kinds of robots, including the sex robot that may also end up in a sex video someday. Gasp!

Bumblebee, however, would have been able to relate with any joke. But the audience of a certain age that was able to watch the 2018 “Bumblebee” definitely went nostalgic with its soundtrack’s ‘80s songs, from The Smiths to Tears for Fears and even Rick Astley: “Never gonna give you up.”

This is what happens to the woman of a certain age—me—who has not watched new movies lately. She binge-watches old movies instead, from “Bumblebee” to “Mary Poppins Returns.”

That same audience of a certain age must have also seen the 1964 “Mary Poppins” which starred Julie Andrews.

I’m not always comfortable with musicals such as “Mary Poppins” and its “Returns” where characters suddenly burst into song unless it’s “The Phantom of the Opera” which must be the best musical of all time.

I cried the first time I watched “Phantom,” cried again the second time. These were not in the same venues and countries, and were about 12 years apart, but the melancholy it evoked was the same. Like the rainy days and Mondays that may get you down, but not when there’s an El Niño and we now welcome rain the same way we welcome news on our favorite political candidate shining in debates, with the hope it will level up to electoral victory.

Ilang tulog na lang, Election 2019 na! Excited pa more? Or, are we there yet? Which an excited child may constantly ask as he and his family travel to some islands for their summer vacation.

Here’s my unsolicited advice: Go to El Nido, Palawan where forgetting an island’s name is the norm after visiting 18 islands in three days. For example, I have already forgotten the name of my favorite island despite my vow to remember its name forevermore. Should I go through all the El Nido tours—A, B, C, D, and E—again to find out its name? Yay!

That’s the beauty of tours. Once you’ve been there, done that, you can then return to “your” island again and again. Vacation pa more! But K Brosas mentioned Amanpulo as her favorite, so, let’s save for that then.

But the political candidate and his family and his team have no time for a summer vacation this year as they prepare for the debates, fora, and campaign sorties until they literally lose their voice, until their hands are shaking even if they’re not shaking anyone’s hands, until their legs gain muscles with all the house-to-house walking.

I gotta feeling, though, there’s at least one candidate whose thought bubble is Diana Ross’ “Do you know / Where you’re going to? / Do you like the things / That life is showing you / Where are you going to? / Do you know?” Which can be the perfect campaign song for the main rival of Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno.

That rival a.k.a. the violet-orange mayoral candidate has been revealing all the bad things that Moreno has allegedly done, and is then asking the Cagayanon if the latter still loves CDO as it is now, thus, “Do you like the things / That life is showing you” could be the perfect line for his campaign ad.

By the way, Moreno’s team calls him “Pomfake.” Ouch. Is that better than “Pomjoke”?

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