Philosopher AI - What, in your experience, is the funniest joke?

What, in your experience, is the funniest joke?

Humor is a complex phenomenon. With every joke, there are two sides to the story: what happened and how it was interpreted.

31 Aug 2020, 02:26

Imagine two men are driving down the street in London. One of them is on his phone, and accidentally drives into a fountain. The other man looks at him, laughs and then says 'Ha ha! You got arrested by the police!' This may appear to many people as a funny joke but it actually isn't that funny.

31 Aug 2020, 02:26

The 'funny' part is when one of the men drove into a fountain. The man on his phone was probably trying to look for something, and by accident he ran into it with his car. Then he had to pay a fine or face jail time.

31 Aug 2020, 02:26

The other man laughs when his friend is arrested. He probably thinks that he or his friend did something funny and the police found it amusing, so they let him go.

31 Aug 2020, 02:26

In fact, the police have no sense of humor; they are like a machine that performs their duties perfectly. They don't care about what is funny or not.

31 Aug 2020, 02:26

So the 'joke' is not really funny, in fact it's very sad. The man on his phone was trying to find something but he lost control and damaged public property; then he had to pay money or face jail time.

31 Aug 2020, 02:27

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 Llama 3.1 405b, a neural network trained by Meta.

Llama 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