The Telegraph My details My newsletters Logout Upgrade to Premium My details My newsletters Logout The Telegraph 10 ways humans are still superior to robots ability to read emotions Credit: Reuters 11 March 2016 • 3:15pm In a giant leap forward for robotics and artificial intelligence, a computer program this week beat the world champion at a human strategy game.
 The AI called AlphaGo is the brainchild of Google-owned British company DeepMind, and it is was victorious in two games of Go against the world's best player.
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 Tell jokes Friends script To tell really good jokes, humans draw on everything from body language to emotions.
 Researchers have been working for decades to produce funny artificial intelligence, but the artificial jokes don't quite have the same effect as Michael McIntyre bounding across the Apollo's stage sending up the habits of Britons.
 After being fed scripts from the entire Friends catalogue, an artificial intelligence from software developer Andy Herd came out with some funny but nonsensical lines such as: Chandler: So, Phoebe likes my pants Monica: Chicken Bob!
 Chandler: (in a muffin) (Runs to the girls to cry) Can I get some presents?
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 IBM's Chef Watson has a similarly obscure palate.
 When the artificial intelligence was called upon to write a cookery book its dishes included asparagus grilled with pig's feet croquettes and mustard foam, and an apple and pork kebab cooked with curry powder, mushrooms and strawberries.
 Erm, yum.
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 MIT robots built an Ikea coffee table in 2013, but that's the simplest build in the flat pack company's remit.
 Drive A Google self-driving car goes on a test drive near the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California A Google self-driving car goes on a test drive near the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California Credit: PA Artificial intelligence hasn't quite mastered the art of driving in all environments yet.
 Google may have been testing its driverless cars in cities across the US, but adverse weather conditions such as rain, snow and even poor light are still a challenge for the technology.
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 The best example of a robot that can feel "empathy" is Pepper - the Japanese humanoid robot.
 Pepper reads human emotions by memorising and storing data about human responses using its cloud-based artificial intelligence.
 It can respond to emotional signifiers such as laughing or frowning.