Comment by NitpickLawyer
19 hours ago
Who says LLMs don't have a sense of humor? All of these entries are funny for several (meta or not) reasons:
- Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com)
- Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig? (github.com)
- EU passes "Right to Human Verification" Act (europa.eu)
- Why functional programming is the future (again) (haskell.org) [note: that again killed me)
- AI progress is stalling. Human equivalence was a mirage (garymarcus.com) [note: he'll be saying the same thing forever and ever. Doubly funny since it's on the same "page" as llama12-7b running on a contact lens with WASM]
Gemini 3 definitely is able to mimick some of our sense of humor.
I found this quite funny too: https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1pi28l7/i_asked_g...
Arguably a big part of comedy is mimicry. Humor often works by reinforcing in-group identity, playing up cultural stereotypes as seen here. So maybe we shouldn't be that surprised that LLMs can exhibit some genuine wittiness.
> Who says LLMs don't have a sense of humor? All of these entries are funny
You don’t need a sense of humour to be unintentionally funny. Seriously believing something absurd is a form of humour for outside observers but not the observed.
One entry would be unintentionally funny, I give you that. 5/ what, 30 entries? That's a pattern.
True! Why some of the greatest comedic performances are actors who play an absurd role straight-as.
Yeah I was thinking some of this might be "AI model in-jokes" that maybe I don't get, while other layes are funny to me.