How funny are the frontier AI models?

TLDR: yes, models are getting funnier over time I love laughing. Well, who doesn’t? Good jokes have a certain notion of cleverness to them and I do believe that great comedians display high intelligence. Cracking a good joke requires astute observations about odd situations, and linking them to something we find familiar. Jokes are hard! Of course, humor has a strong component of delivery too, but as the existence of r/jokes proves, the next best thing to an actual comedy show is a daily dose of clever one-liners. How wonderful would it be if we could have machines generate this endless stream of jokes for our endless merriment? So for over two years now, I’ve been curious about AI’s ability to crack jokes. In fact, at my lab Lossfunk, we had a take-home assignment to build an LLM pipeline that could produce good jokes. As you might know already, LLMs have been historically pretty bad at generating original jokes. I still remember how GPT3 would often crack this joke: Why can’t you…