#TheresaMayGIFs: UK PM’s Q&A performance sends Twitter into sarcasm spree

Published time: 30 May, 2017 01:30 Edited time: 30 May, 2017 01:32 Twitter users took a rather dim view of UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s performance in Monday night’s UK general election event with her Labour Party rival Jeremy Corbyn, with the hashtag #TheresaMayGifs trending online. Poll numbers when the election was announced in late […]

AI that detects sarcasm and irony? Perfect 🙄

Increasingly, companies are turning to artificial intelligence to understand what people say about their products and services on Twitter or Facebook. The goal is to react more quickly to complainers and perhaps sell more stuff to happy customers. But with sarcasm, there is a big gap between what people say and what they mean. And, […]