LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
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LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
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Re: LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
#2The fact that any surprise used in the wrong place is considered hallucination and a downside for that LLM. I guess a good starting point to improve that is to add an experimental "Surprise Mode" which will try to guess the right kinds of surprises rather than minimizing them and get the feedback from the users. Over time, it will learn what kind of surprises users like so that they will be used in future training datasets.
Re: LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
#3I tried using the article suggested randomness and inevitability to come up with completely new joke, this is what I came up with, tell me how'd I do (no llm involved):
- I asked Jimmy to tell me a random number
- Yeah? And what did he tell you?
- He told me one
Re: LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
#4The fact that any surprise used in the wrong place is considered hallucination and a downside for that LLM. I guess a good starting point to improve that is to add an experimental "Surprise Mode" which will try to guess the right kinds of surprises rather than minimizing them and get the feedback from the users. Over time, it will learn what kind of surprises users like so that they will be used in future training da…
aren't llms some sort of Markov Chains? surprise means less probability means more gibberish
Re: LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
#5Reminds me of haikus; to be true in nature, they must have a 'cutting word' to severely juxtapose, allowing two otherwise irreconcilable meanings to be bridged. A good haiku must be composed from two directions, not one. But LLMs only move in one...
Re: LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
#6I tried using the article suggested randomness and inevitability to come up with completely new joke, this is what I came up with, tell me how'd I do (no llm involved): - I asked Jimmy to tell me a random number - Yeah? And what did he tell you? - He told me one
+1 for effort (or lack thereof)
Re: LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
#7Unless you ask them for big surprises.
Re: LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
#8I tried using the article suggested randomness and inevitability to come up with completely new joke, this is what I came up with, tell me how'd I do (no llm involved): - I asked Jimmy to tell me a random number - Yeah? And what did he tell you? - He told me one
He told me 2 (fuck off)
Re: LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
#9I tried using the article suggested randomness and inevitability to come up with completely new joke, this is what I came up with, tell me how'd I do (no llm involved): - I asked Jimmy to tell me a random number - Yeah? And what did he tell you? - He told me one
I think it's funny, but I like abstract jokes that most people don't like, so expect mixed opinions on this.
Re: LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
#10I tried using the article suggested randomness and inevitability to come up with completely new joke, this is what I came up with, tell me how'd I do (no llm involved): - I asked Jimmy to tell me a random number - Yeah? And what did he tell you? - He told me one
Why is that in English speaking world a joke is almost always a pun?