The Problem with Having a 'Conversation' with A.I.
Psychology Today | 12.07.2026 20:28
In the 1950s, a CBS sound engineer named Charley Douglass had a deceptively simple idea. What if you could pipe in pre-recorded laughter into a television broadcast so that audiences at home would feel like they were watching comedy alongside others? He built a device called the "laff box," a typewriter-sized machine loaded with recordings of different laughs, chuckles, and crowd reactions. The laugh track was born.
