FAIRFAX, Va., June 8 -- George Mason University issued the following news release:

Workshopping, an iterative process where creators share ideas, test what works, and refine what doesn't through collective feedback, is at the heart of any writers' group. This collaborative dynamic inspired George Mason University PhD students Shiwei Hong to explore whether artificial intelligence (AI) could benefit from a similar approach.

Hong developed a novel multi-agent system that simulates a collaborative comedy writing environment in which AI agents generate, critique, and refine humorous content together. Her research, recently accepted to the prestigious 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, investigates how struct...