It's just like people: a female robot took offence at a male robot for a bad joke.

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly evolving, already able to paint pictures, compose music, write books, create software codes, suggest the right diet and just keep a nice conversation going.

But there is still much that AI cannot do, such as emotions and humour.

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British engineers have tried to teach AI to reproduce human emotions. To do this, they created two robots - a "female" Ameca and a "male" Azi and using 32 actuators (five for the neck and 27 for the face) they brought their facial expressions closer to human.

As part of the experiment, Azi "woke up" his girlfriend and told her a funny (in his opinion) joke about files-cookies, but Ameca did not appreciate the humour and said that she had not heard a joke sillier than this one.

During the conversation the robots actively showed emotions on their faces, Azi was clearly embarrassed by the bad joke, and Ameka looked annoyed.

We offer you to evaluate the realism of the androids' behaviour as well

Source: IFLScience