Humor

“The one thing that LLMs do the worst is humor. They cannot make jokes. And it's because I think, like, as you point out, they're just used to the average of averages and not throwing curveballs.”

“Happiness is always a fleeting emotion. Like most people are rarely happy for more than a couple minutes at a time. And I think it's very similar to humor, where if I tell you a very funny joke, you don't laugh for 10 years. You laugh for a couple minutes. Hum…”

“Weirdly, we believe that funny people are smart. It's automatic. An idiot can tell great jokes and you'll assume he's the smartest guy in the world when he's still actually an idiot. But the ability to make someone laugh is perceived to be so challenging and d…”

“So I think that the humor thing is going to be a problem to be solved. The LLMs are going to be hilarious and they're going to be hilarious in two ways. So the first way is niche humor.”

“When you're telling the story, whatever the funny bit is, those have to literally be the last words of that particular segment, right? So once you deliver it, Then you have to stop talking. And the reason you have to stop talking is the audience needs about a …”

“Essentially, it's three things. Two of them are expected, and one is unexpected, and the unexpected one will be funny.”

“Actually we may get to some of the expert stuff first. Ah, before it can do even something like humor. The irony is that something like humor that we take for granted might actually be really hard, and other areas might be easier.”

“I find humor like a way to do that, because, you know, you laugh, and then you kind of, there's always some truth to every joke and some people it's less like, let me lecture you about this thing we should all think about, and we're like, here's something ridi…”