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Can AI master the art of humor?

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By Bob Mankoff Verified
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Oy, Oy, AI: What ChatGPT Can Tell Us About Jewish Jokes

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By Bob Mankoff Verified
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In the last few months, I’ve asked ChatGPT to explain a lot of things to me that I can now pretend to explain to others. For example, what does the GPT part of ChatGPT stand for? Here’s what, straight from the horse’s mouth: The “GPT” part of ChatGPT stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer.” If you like, you can then go down the rabbit hole to further interrogate each part of that explanation with ChatGPT, and it will not flag or fail. It will go on to the end.
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Remembering George Booth, Cartoonist and Humorist

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By Bob Mankoff Verified
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If brevity is the soul of wit, then my friend George Booth wasn’t one. George, who died this month after a good long run, was a humorist. There is a distinction. Nowadays we lump everything laughable under the banner of humor. Back in Victorian times they were keen to distinguish the two. Humor was genuine and arose from character. Wit was artificial, a kind of verbal sleight of hand practiced by the aristocratic educated elite. Humor was in the pub. Wit in the coffee house. Humor was warm and welcoming.
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