Humor Recognition in Psychiatric Patients and Artificial Intelligence

Patients with schizophrenia are characterized by humor recognition deficit which is connected with their cognitive disorder such as inability to filter out irrelevant stimuli. As soon as patients with schizotypal and affective disorders easily recognize humor, this may be used as a strong diagnostic criterion in clinical practice. On the other hand humor recognition by artificial intellect became a hot question in computer science in a flow of attempts to bring human-computer communication closer to social. It is argued that schizophrenic and computer thinking have common features. Both have lack of social and emotional context understanding. To compare failures in humor recognition made by patients with schizophrenia vs computer may move forward theory and practice of both clinical psychology and computer science.