A team of university researchers in the Netherlands says they've developed an artificial intelligence platform that can recognize sarcasm, according to a new report. The Guardian reported on Thursday that the research was presented at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association in Ottawa, Canada, on Thursday. At the event, Ph.D.
Shekhar Nayak, another member of the research project, said the team's methods and findings could help AI assistants interact more easily with human speakers by detecting negativity or hostility in the speaker's voice. Gao noted that incorporating visual cues into the AI tool's training data could make it even more capable of detecting sarcasm conveyed through facial expressions like raised eyebrows or smirks.