Necessary throat clearing: modern NLP, and GPT-3 in particular, is incredible, maybe the most exciting scientific field of our time. You have to be incredibly i

Necessary throat clearing: modern NLP, and GPT-3 in particular, is incredible, maybe the most exciting scientific field of our time. You have to be incredibly invested in nay-saying to pretend otherwise, and that's coming from someone who's pretty invested in nay-saying actually. That said, I think comedy is something these sorts of things will naturally do well. It's not really too different from mad-libs. A big part of humor is a well-placed unexpected word, and what the word actually is matters less than you think. So sub-human-level machine text generation does this surprisingly well. In the same way a mad-lib does.