Soon AI will be explaining comedy to you.
OpenAI’s GPT-4 Is Coming for Comedy Show Writers’ Rooms
https://www.thedailybeast.com/openais-gpt-4-is-coming-for-comedy-show-writers-rooms
There’s a quote about humor that’s often attributed to writer E.B. White: “Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.” While that adage has shown itself to be true time and again, that hasn’t stopped one of the world’s most powerful chatbots from doing exactly that.
Last week, OpenAI launched GPT-4—the latest edition of its large language model (LLM)—to the public. The powerful chatbot seems capable of some truly impressive feats, including passing the bar exam and LSAT, developing code for entire video games, and even turning a photograph of a napkin sketch into a working website.
Along with the new model, OpenAI also released an accompanying 98-page technical report showcasing some of GPT-4’s abilities and limitations. Interestingly, this included several sections that showed that GPT-4 could also explain why exactly certain images and memes were funny—including a breakdown of a picture of a novelty phone charger and a meme of chicken nuggets arranged to look like a map of the world.
GPT-4 manages to do this with startling accuracy, laying out exactly what makes these images humorous in language so plain and technical it becomes—dare we say—borderline funny.
“This meme is a joke that combines two unrelated things: pictures of the earth from space and chicken nuggets,” one description reads. “The text of the meme suggests that the image below is a beautiful picture of the earth from space. However, the image is actually of chicken nuggets arranged to vaguely resemble a map of the world.”
While the inclusion of these frog-dissection descriptions was likely to show off GPT-4’s multimodal capabilities (meaning it can use images as inputs as well as text), it’s also one of the more major examples of an LLM that seems to understand humor—at least, somewhat. If it can understand humor, though, that begs the question: Can ChatGPT actually be funny?
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OpenAI’s GPT-4 Is Coming for Comedy Show Writers’ Rooms
https://www.thedailybeast.com/openais-gpt-4-is-coming-for-comedy-show-writers-rooms
There’s a quote about humor that’s often attributed to writer E.B. White: “Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.” While that adage has shown itself to be true time and again, that hasn’t stopped one of the world’s most powerful chatbots from doing exactly that.
Last week, OpenAI launched GPT-4—the latest edition of its large language model (LLM)—to the public. The powerful chatbot seems capable of some truly impressive feats, including passing the bar exam and LSAT, developing code for entire video games, and even turning a photograph of a napkin sketch into a working website.
Along with the new model, OpenAI also released an accompanying 98-page technical report showcasing some of GPT-4’s abilities and limitations. Interestingly, this included several sections that showed that GPT-4 could also explain why exactly certain images and memes were funny—including a breakdown of a picture of a novelty phone charger and a meme of chicken nuggets arranged to look like a map of the world.
GPT-4 manages to do this with startling accuracy, laying out exactly what makes these images humorous in language so plain and technical it becomes—dare we say—borderline funny.
“This meme is a joke that combines two unrelated things: pictures of the earth from space and chicken nuggets,” one description reads. “The text of the meme suggests that the image below is a beautiful picture of the earth from space. However, the image is actually of chicken nuggets arranged to vaguely resemble a map of the world.”
While the inclusion of these frog-dissection descriptions was likely to show off GPT-4’s multimodal capabilities (meaning it can use images as inputs as well as text), it’s also one of the more major examples of an LLM that seems to understand humor—at least, somewhat. If it can understand humor, though, that begs the question: Can ChatGPT actually be funny?
(Much more at above url)
