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Robots can make humans laugh – mostly when they fall over – but a new research project is looking at whether robots using AI could ever be genuinely funny.If you ask ChatGPT for a funny joke, it will serve you up something that belongs in a Christmas cracker: “Why don’t skeletons fight each other? Because they don’t have the guts.”The University of Melbourne’s Dr Robert Walton, a dean’s research fellow in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, is taking a different approach to working out whether robots can do comedy.Thanks to an Australian Research Council grant of about $500,000,…

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How to solve today’s Wordle.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesHappy Monday, dearest Wordlers! I did not have a lazy Sunday yesterday. I woke up and went over to my parent’s house and helped make brunch, as we had family in town visiting over the weekend. Pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs and chilaquiles. Coffee. Various berries. And my daughter made these candied cranberries which were delightful. As Borat would say, “Great success.” Then work and chores and a hike in the woods and it was such a lovely day I was in a tank-top and shorts out on the trail. In December. Mind…

How disappointing that the rail regulator has caved in to the moaning minnies and reinstated the 7am Manchester to London as a passenger service (‘People had forgotten about it’: onboard the 7am Manchester-London train service saved from axe, 4 December). Here was a brilliant idea being piloted before adoption across the rail network. Gone now is the dream of an efficient rail service unencumbered by the demands of so-called “humans” and their messy ways.Dr David WebsterCrewe, Cheshire There are two serious messages from Nicola Chester’s brilliant writing (Country diary, 3 December). One, I wonder how many people have sustained serious…

ITVTwelve celebrities entered the Australian jungle three weeks agoSpoiler warning: This article reveals details about the final of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!Social media star Angry Ginge has been crowned king of the jungle in this year’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!The 24-year-old Mancunian content creator, whose real name is Morgan Burtwistle, emerged victorious in the ITV reality show’s final on Sunday after three weeks in the Australian camp.He became the winner of the show’s 25th regular series, beating fellow contestants including ex-EastEnders star Shona McGarty, Celebs Go Dating receptionist Tom Read Wilson and…

Lionel Messi leads Inter Miami to its first MLS Cup, sparking new questions about the league’s future. Paul Tenorio of The Athletic was at the final and shared his views.

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is kind of tough. That purple category is a word-twister again, so you may have to ponder it. If you need help sorting them into groups, you’re in the right place. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the…

The New York Watch Auction: XIII, which included the sale of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s custom watch, became the highest-grossing watch auction in history on Sunday. The auction’s 10th anniversary for Phillips in association with Bacs & Russo also extended Phillips Watches’ streak to five consecutive years of 100 percent-sold “white glove” live auctions in New York. Coppola’s one-of-a-kind F.P. Journe FFC Prototype led the auction, selling for $10.8 million to an anonymous bidder on the phone. The sale marked a new world auction record for F.P. Journe and a new record for a watch by an independent watchmaker. Paul Boutros, deputy chairman…

The Kansas City Chiefs will host the Houston Texans on Sunday Night Football in a pivotal matchup for both teams. The Chiefs are led by arguably the two biggest names in the sport in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, but these aren’t the players the SportsLine Projection Model is backing in Week 14 Sunday Night Football anytime touchdown scorers bets when online sports betting. One of the model’s top anytime TD scorer bets involves Mahomes, however, with the model projecting value in Kansas City receiver Rashee Rice to score. The model projects him to score in more than 50% of simulations,…

A unique “sacrificial complex” discovered between two burial mounds in Russia has revealed new information about the funerary rituals of nomadic people in the south Ural Mountains nearly 2,400 years ago.This past summer, researchers from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russia Academic of Sciences excavated the space between burial mounds at the archaeological site of Vysokaya Mogila, a necropolis with a series of high-status burial mounds scattered across 3.7 miles (6 kilometers). The necropolis was in use between the fourth and third centuries B.C., and a number of artifacts have been discovered both in the burial mounds and outside…