The dream of developing a computer with a keen sense of humour has edged closer to reality.

A mathematical model to reveal the science of laughter has been engineered and it not only explains where jokes came from in the first place but suggests that humour is inevitable because it is a kind of error detection mechanism to keep the most complex known machine - the human brain - working efficiently. In short, we laugh at our mistakes to improve performance.

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