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ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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Post by gnicholas »

crazygringo wrote: post #34
gnicholas wrote: post #15

If/when generative AI gets good at jokes, it's going to cause a big change in how people react to humorous utterances. If gmail can nudge you to insert jokes at the drop of a hat, anyone can be funny on email. If a Google Glass-like device (or even just AirPods Pro+) can listen to your conversation and prompt you with a joke to make, then anyone can be funny IRL. It will cheapen humor, or at least the kind of humor t…

Anyone can insert "jokes" into an email, and they will fall completely flat. The human thing is to judge the other person, yourself, your relationship, the context of the email, and what you want to achieve with it. Are you trying to disarm? Flirt? Entertain? Validate? Suck up? Impress? Make someone groan? And if it backfires, ouch. The hard part now isn't the joke part. It's the right type of joke in the right place…

I don't think AI will ever be able to nail jokes all the time. But I could easily see it being able to go over an email and suggest a couple jokes here or there, which you could accept/reject/edit.

It would be interesting if you interacted with someone for years over email, and then finally met in person and found out they were not funny at all. Put that in a dating app and it's along the lines of using filters on your photos. There's more than one way to be a disappointment in person.

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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Post by inference-lord »

s0rce wrote: post #40
inference-lord wrote: post #27

This is the actual point of AI right? The point of AI, to tune and refine everything to be objectively better than humans in every possible respect, basically just to see what that looks like, and then potentially reap the economic benefits of this betterment ? I saw someone on here being excited about when robots can beat humans at soccer, I know we can do this, and I know this will happen, and I guess that's the po…

If your job is to write jokes for a talk show then having AI do it sounds good (if you keep your job and its gets easier) or possibly bad if you are replaced by the machine.

I guess the future will be, no humans, just AI being awesome at everything for the sake of being awesome? Living infinitely being awesome haha

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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Post by imgabe »

inference-lord wrote: post #27

This is the actual point of AI right? The point of AI, to tune and refine everything to be objectively better than humans in every possible respect, basically just to see what that looks like, and then potentially reap the economic benefits of this betterment ? I saw someone on here being excited about when robots can beat humans at soccer, I know we can do this, and I know this will happen, and I guess that's the po…

AI has been better than humans at chess for a while now, and chess is more popular than ever.

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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Post by pryelluw »

minitech wrote: post #35
pryelluw wrote: post #12

One of my few hobbies is writing standup comedy jokes. To give you some insight into my style, here is non-offensive joke: I recently bought myself a do it yourself boat kit from Amazon. Haven’t finished assembling it yet. Just need to add water. Anyhow, I’ve really tried to use multiple models to aide in writing but they fall short. Mostly due to comedy being a performance art. You can try and write a joke in the st…

I’m perplexed by this comment on a few levels. Is this one of those replies on LLM-related posts that’s entirely LLM-generated to prove a point or whatever? Because… that joke isn’t funny at all, right?

I did write it and I appreciate the feedback on the joke. It’s hard to write comedy much more sharing with others. I knew the joke wouldn’t do well here!

Anyhow, I don’t post LLM generated anything.

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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Post by zone411 »

I got these from a custom model and they didn't seem to be in Google:

Yo mama so fat...

...when she breaks a plate it's considered a strategic military strike

...when she sucked in her stomach there was a breeze

...when she fell in love there was a whale song

...every time I call her I get charged for an international phone call

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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Post by pryelluw »

smnrg wrote: post #28
pryelluw wrote: post #12

One of my few hobbies is writing standup comedy jokes. To give you some insight into my style, here is non-offensive joke: I recently bought myself a do it yourself boat kit from Amazon. Haven’t finished assembling it yet. Just need to add water. Anyhow, I’ve really tried to use multiple models to aide in writing but they fall short. Mostly due to comedy being a performance art. You can try and write a joke in the st…

This would actually work well, but you'd have to be Steven Wright.

Thank you! He was indeed my inspiration. I practice my writing by adapting the style of others. I’m an amateur (and will stay as such) with no style. Have to adopt someone else’s.

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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Post by 8n4vidtmkvmk »

gnicholas wrote: post #25
mp05 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it was incredibly off-color and would have resulted in ejection from the conference, for sure. So it was hilarious? An unchained LLM should be able to write some doozies.

It wasn't hilarious, but it was more of a "joke" than many of the duds it delivered. I didn't end up using any of the jokes, but rather made a meta-joke about how I had asked chatgpt for jokes and had come up completely dry.

I've heard that one. It was funny almost a year ago. Not so amusing now

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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Post by yashasolutions »

s0rce wrote: post #40
inference-lord wrote: post #27

This is the actual point of AI right? The point of AI, to tune and refine everything to be objectively better than humans in every possible respect, basically just to see what that looks like, and then potentially reap the economic benefits of this betterment ? I saw someone on here being excited about when robots can beat humans at soccer, I know we can do this, and I know this will happen, and I guess that's the po…

If your job is to write jokes for a talk show then having AI do it sounds good (if you keep your job and its gets easier) or possibly bad if you are replaced by the machine.

just to add some thoughts:

if we look at it, unless we get AI cracking jokes to an other AI, in the end someone want to have jokes written to be heard by an audience on a show.

Is this person the writer for the show, or will suddenly the CFO will fire the writer because it can generate some content with an LLM? It seems to me, this wont happen, we still need experts.

Maybe the expectation of the economics will change.

When excel or other spreadsheets came around, it did have an impact on the expectations from your accountant, because now no need to do the math on paper anymore, you can do more and more effectively, which lead over time to a renegotiation of the economics, but as far as I can tell, accountants haven't disappeared.

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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Post by zubairshaik »

pryelluw wrote: post #45
minitech wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m perplexed by this comment on a few levels. Is this one of those replies on LLM-related posts that’s entirely LLM-generated to prove a point or whatever? Because… that joke isn’t funny at all, right?

I did write it and I appreciate the feedback on the joke. It’s hard to write comedy much more sharing with others. I knew the joke wouldn’t do well here! Anyhow, I don’t post LLM generated anything.

For what it's worth, I chuckled.
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