Conde Nast’s New Yorker Cartoons Get Digital Help

Bloomberg: Since 2005, the back page of The New Yorker has usually featured a wordless, black-and-white cartoon, and the funniest reader-submitted caption gets published in a following issue. The magazine’s caption contest has become a fan favorite over the last decade, and the cartoon department receives some 5,000 entries each week. Soon, the magazine could get help in sifting through the entries in the form of an artificial intelligence system with a sense of humor. The title’s cartoon editor has collaborated with researchers at Microsoft on an artificial intelligence project that aims to teach a computer what’s funny.