There's an eerily relevant scifi story by Asimov about a scientist and Multivac (Asimov's fictional supercomputer) trying to understand what makes jokes funny [

There's an eerily relevant scifi story by Asimov about a scientist and Multivac (Asimov's fictional supercomputer) trying to understand what makes jokes funny [1]. The scientists feeds Multivac hundreds of jokes, and the supercomputer eventually comes up with an answer: it turns out jokes were devised by an alien intelligence to study mankind, a psychological experiment of sorts. Multivac also asserts that once humans become aware of this, jokes as an experiment on mankind will become invalidated. Suddenly everyone stops laughing. Let's hope ChatGPT continues getting its explanations all wrong! -- [1] "Jokester": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokester https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokester