Why is humor challenging for AI to fully master?

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Humor is challenging for AI to fully master because it requires cognitive reasoning, social understanding, a broad base of knowledge, creative thinking, and audience understanding[1]. Humor's reliance on irony, sarcasm, and cultural nuances makes tasks of humor detection, evaluation, and generation consistently challenging for AI[2].
AI requires more than understanding speech or data patterns – it must have world knowledge, comprehend local cultures and customs, accurately read room dynamics, and be capable of creating and understanding jokes rather than simply understanding what makes something amusing[3]. It is complex because generating it requires understanding human social, cultural, and emotional experiences[1].