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' Photo: ALAMY By James Titcomb 4:30PM GMT 20 Jan 2016 Follow They say a monkey left to hit a keyboard for an infinite amount of time will write Shakespeare, but when it comes to Friends scripts, a computer can do the job a lot quicker.
 An artificial intelligence program, when fed with scripts from the entire Friends back catalogue, has produced hilarious, if not entirely up to scratch, new scenes for the show.
 The network re-creates the back-and-forth conversations between the show's six lead members, including faithfully adding character traits such as Chandler beginning sentences with "so," and Joey's "seriously", although they probably wouldn't be accepted by the show's producers.
 Andy Herd, a software developer from Dundee and creator of the Pandyland web comic, used a recurrent neural network - a form of artificial intelligence that has proven to be relatively adapt at understanding and forming language - to generate the new scripts.
 i fed a recurrent neural network with the scripts for every episode of friends and it learned to generate new scenes pic.
twitter.
com/RIPvYuzEJM — Andy Pandy (@_Pandy) January 18, 2016 Although they make little sense, the tone and character of Friends is unmissable.
 It even includes Jean-Claude Van Damme, a guest star in one episode.
 A particular highlight is the following exchange: Chandler: So, Phoebe likes my pants Monica: Chicken Bob!
 Chandler: (in a muffin) (Runs to the girls to cry) Can I get some presents.
 Interactive: friends4 Interactive: friends3 Interactive: friends1 Interactive: friends2 There have been huge advances in artificial intelligence in recent years, with speech, image and text recognition as well as sentence formation improving markedly.
 This is enabling a wave of semi-intelligent assistants and customer service bots.
 Humour is seen as one of the final frontiers of artificial intelligence, being one of the most difficult things for computers to understand, which is perhaps unsurprising since psychologists also don't understand it nearly as well as other psychological phenomena.
 Most jokes told by robots have been pretty elementary, and pun based - "What do you call a strange market?
 A bizarre bazaar".
 Recent reports of a Friends reunion have been quashed, but if it does happen soon, scriptwriters probably won't be nervously looking over their shoulders.
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