A test of whether computer-based voice output could tell a joke with sufficient tone and inflection to actually make people laugh. Proposed by film critic Roger Ebert (1942-2013) at a TED conference in 2011 where he used a voice synthesizer. Ebert lost his voice from throat cancer surgery five years earlier.
Whether the joke had the proper inflection or not, Ebert make the crowd roar with the following synthesized voice output. "A guy goes to see a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist tells him that he's crazy. The guy says he wants a second opinion, so the psychiatrist says all right, you're ugly too!" See
synthesized voice.