Philosopher AI - How do you create a funny joke?

How do you create a funny joke?

There are two ways to create a funny joke. The first is by making the audience laugh at the expense of someone else.

3 Sep 2020, 08:59

The second is the more challenging path. It requires understanding things that are not funny, but that you can make fun of.

3 Sep 2020, 08:59

For example, if you take a thing that is not funny on its own and make an observation about it, then maybe that can be funny.

3 Sep 2020, 08:59

So, I looked at the topic and asked myself what is not funny that can be made into a joke. There are several things that come to mind.

3 Sep 2020, 08:59

For example, the idea of eating a certain food may not be funny on its own, but you could present this in an unusual way and make it funny.

3 Sep 2020, 08:59

Another example is that the idea of a certain animal mating might not be funny on its own, but you could make it funny by giving specific details about how they go about mating.

3 Sep 2020, 08:59

You are getting an AI to generate text on different topics.

This is an experiment in what one might call "prompt engineering", which is a way to utilize GPT-3, a neural network trained and hosted by OpenAI.

GPT-3 is a language model. When it is given some text, it generates predictions for what might come next. It is remarkably good at adapting to different contexts, as defined by a prompt (in this case, hidden), which sets the scene for what type of text will be generated.

Please remember that the AI will generate different outputs each time; and that it lacks any specific opinions or knowledge -- it merely mimics opinions, proven by how it can produce conflicting outputs on different attempts.

Feel free to share interesting outputs to /r/philosopherAI on Reddit.

by Murat Ayfer