> but could it create a novel joke? Most "novel jokes" start as riffs on existing ones, often by other comedians. So I'd be willing to say that the answer will

> but could it create a novel joke? Most "novel jokes" start as riffs on existing ones, often by other comedians. So I'd be willing to say that the answer will be "yes". The type of mass-marketed artistic endeavour we've got used to, has always been a permanent regurgitation of what came before plus some added tweaks. GPT can probably do that. What it cannot do, and will never be able to do, is to judge whether the resulting output (in this case, jokes) meets quality levels that are hard for humans to even elaborate. Will this joke be funny to an audience of hipster tweenagers? Will it be funny to military personnel, or to nuns? Etc etc.