Re:I Asked ChatGPT to Explain Some Jokes to Me
by the_af on Saturday December 17, 2022 @10:08AM
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ChatGPT emits bullshit, but wouldn't we fault most high schoolers with the same thing in their homework essays? ;)
Re:I Asked ChatGPT to Explain Some Jokes to Me
by mewpmewp2 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:43PM
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High schoolers and even children can frequently understand humour and jokes, even come up with some. They might miss some of the jokes proposed by OP, but they would still have that X factor, that the AI doesn't have.
Re:I Asked ChatGPT to Explain Some Jokes to Me
by the_af on Saturday December 17, 2022 @07:20PM
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Oh, agreed, GPT doesn't "get" humor the way even a child can.
What I meant is that GPT's attempts at bullshitting its way through a pseudoanswer looks a lot like what a highschooler (who also doesn't understand the topic) would attempt. That alone is amusing enough to me!
The surprising thing is how much of human conversation is successfully approximated. The bullshit fails when we ask the software to attempt to perform inductive or deductive logic or to derive information from a theory of mind.