https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/23/a-laughing-robot-and-the-possibilities-of-ai > Yvonne Whalley remembers Alan Ayckbourn’s play in which a robot develops at least one human trait > Your report (Scientists try to teach robot to laugh at the right time, 15 September) reminded me of Sir Alan Ayckbourn’s 1998 play Comic Potential. Except that in the play, the robot did not need to be taught to laugh.