ChatGPT Can Craft Jokes, But Can AI Make Us Laugh?
Heard the one about the AI-generated Chatbot that walked into a bar? No? Well, neither have we, but it is only a matter of time. AI-generated content is creating waves across the board—art, music, and writing are all easily generated by AI.
But can it make us laugh? Laughter is a base human response to emotional stimuli. This makes it a perfect test for AIs continuing development. So, let’s put AI under the spotlight and see if it can generate more than just words but an emotional response in the form of laughter.
How Does ChatGPT Generate Comedy?
Laughter is all about fun. So, let’s have a little fun as we go. At the end of each section, we will list two jokes. One will be our corny attempt at humor, and the other will be an AI-generated joke. But will you be able to tell the difference?
At the end of the article, all will be revealed.
Comedy is a multi-faceted and complex topic, which makes it an equally complicated task for AI. So, how does AI tackle the task of making us laugh? Several main techniques are used:
None of this sounds very funny! So, let’s have a giggle at a couple of jokes. Can you tell which is generated by AI?
What Can ChatGPT Do?
This is an evolving technology that has limitations. It is unlikely to replace stand-up comedians anytime soon. But is it a useful tool for comedy? Let’s discuss some of the ways that AI can be used in comedy.
AI in comedy isn’t only about creating material. Rather, it can be used as a tool that can help comedians and aspiring comedians perfect their routines.
What Can’t ChatGPT Do?
When it comes to comedy and laughter, there is still plenty that AI can’t do. For instance, human nature means that we often laugh at things that shouldn’t be funny. A browse through “fail videos” on YouTube illustrates this point perfectly.
This is the crux of the matter; there are still plenty of limitations when it comes to AI making us laugh. For example, would AI think someone crashing a tree down on their house was funny? Not yet, as there are contextual problems here that AI still hasn’t overcome. Here are some of the laughter-related things that AI can’t do.
So, stand-up comedians can breathe a sigh of relief that we won’t all be queuing up to buy tickets to the ChatGPT Comedy Roadshow. But what happens as AI technology develops?
What Is the Future of AI In Comedy?
There are moral and ethical implications to consider here. However, these fall outside the scope of the question that this article poses: Can AI make us laugh?
AI is being used to create artwork, music, and text. Many of the limitations that AI is experiencing in these fields are magnified in comedy. Comedy has subtleties that perhaps a nice melody or a pretty picture doesn’t. Granted, there is subtlety in all forms of artwork that determine the success or failure of the piece, but comedy requires a deeper understanding of humanity’s response to situations.
As already noted, a ten-minute video of people hurting themselves in spectacular ways should not be funny. And they don’t just make us laugh either; we feel empathy, and we groan when they get hurt. But still, we laugh.
So, can AI learn from this and adapt comedy models?
Yes, is the short answer. AI models are getting increasingly complex and gaining a deeper understanding of more sophisticated aspects of human nature. In the future, AI models will be able to generate “tailored humor” that appeals to an individual’s particular sense of humor. In the meantime, there is plenty of work to do if it wants to understand the complexities of humor and what makes us laugh.
The Last Laugh
AI is many things, but we struggled to get it to make us laugh. Getting it to generate jokes was no laughing matter! The humor was flat without the subtlety at the heart of much great comedy. For the record, joke numbers one, three, six, and seven were human-generated, and the others were AI-generated.
Could you tell the difference?
Does AI really pose a danger to us? Or is it all speculation?
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