The Ebert Test is a proposed test for whether a synthesized computer voice can tell a joke with timing, inflection, and delivery sufficient to make people laugh. It is related to the Turing Test in that it evaluates whether machine-generated performance can be perceived as humanlike.
A test which gauges whether a computer-based synthesized voice can tell a joke with sufficient skill to cause people to laugh. It was proposed by film critic Roger Ebert at the 2011 TED conference as a challenge to software developers to have a computerized voice master the inflections, delivery, timing, and intonations of a speaking human. The test is similar to the Turing test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 as a way to gauge a computer's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior by generating performance indistinguishable from a human being.