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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 (killedbygoog

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]

rat9988 11mo ago
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_gemini_nano_banana_pro_to_roast_gemini/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1pi28l7/i_asked_g...
- CamperBob2 11mo ago
  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.
latexr 11mo ago
> 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.
- keepamovin 11mo ago
  True! Why some of the greatest comedic performances are actors who play an absurd role straight-as.
- NitpickLawyer 11mo ago
  One entry would be unintentionally funny, I give you that. 5/ what, 30 entries? That's a pattern.
  - latexr 11mo ago
    It’s as much of a pattern as throwing a D6 30 times and getting “1” 5 times. It’s not meaningful, there’s no provable intentionality behind it. The ones that are funny aren’t even particularly so. Many of them are actually plausible HN submissions which we’re only interpreting as funny because we know they’re not real.
keepamovin 11mo ago
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.

rat9988 11mo ago

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_gemini_nano_banana_pro_to_roast_gemini/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GeminiAI/comments/1pi28l7/i_asked_g...

CamperBob2 11mo ago
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.

latexr 11mo ago

> 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.

keepamovin 11mo ago
True! Why some of the greatest comedic performances are actors who play an absurd role straight-as.
NitpickLawyer 11mo ago
One entry would be unintentionally funny, I give you that. 5/ what, 30 entries? That's a pattern.
- latexr 11mo ago
  It’s as much of a pattern as throwing a D6 30 times and getting “1” 5 times. It’s not meaningful, there’s no provable intentionality behind it. The ones that are funny aren’t even particularly so. Many of them are actually plausible HN submissions which we’re only interpreting as funny because we know they’re not real.

keepamovin 11mo ago

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.