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ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

#51

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…

Comedians practice and code review their art with each other. And in review, they critique and improve their performances. the performance is probably the last 10% that takes another 90% of the time to master. So I get why most folks wouldn't want to spend the time.

That is a very astute observation. There is that tough code review-like process that takes place in clubs. Most don’t even care much about the audience (well, they want people to have a good time). But do care what others comedians say. It’s why I reason LLMs have a long way to go. That is until OpenComedyWriter takes the stage. I can imagine the audience booing the LLM telling it to “create more meaningful weights by accessing better datasets”…

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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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.

Thank you! I hope that chuckle made your day better.

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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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.

same here.

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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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

Yep, this was last March, and it got laughs at the time.

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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It was super buried, having to find the link to the paper [1] to the data [2] but finally found the document with the actual ChatGPT satirical Onion-style headlines [3]. The full list of 20 results, which it seems criminal that the article didn't include or link to directly so we can judge for ourselves: 1. "Local Man Discovers New Emotion, Still Can't Describe It Properly" 2. "Woman Declares Herself Mayor of 'Laundr…

These aren't that funny... I would even go so far as to say they are pretty bad.

Agreed. It's actually really interesting to see how it nails the "format", but in actual Onion headlines it's always making some point or observation that we recognize as the funny part. Which is the part that's just missing from nearly all of these.

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

#57

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…

can you review the first half of this article (background story) https://newbeelearn.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-get-2nd-p... it was my attempt at being funny.

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

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That sounds a bit silly. Why can't funny be "faked?" Plenty of successful comedians practiced and had to learn to be funny. So there's clearly a method to it.

Sense of humour (intelligence) is about the ability to find improbable, but insightful things. I believe spitting out patterns extracted from training data is not capable of producing anything close to that.

by your definition, aren't you just asking it to find the patterns that're uncommon then? given the amount of ram it has access to, that should be at least theoretically possible to generate uncommon patterns and produce something approximating humor.

Re: ChatGPT Is Funnier Than You

#60

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…

Half of comedy (and nearly anything else) is timing. Having a model prompt in realtime will still result in awkwardly timed/delivery of jokes

Groq seems like it should be possible if you're a fast reader.
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