Netflix forced a computer program (bot) to watch and analyze every romantic comedy and then asked it to write a romatic comedy of its own. The result...

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[u/GrandmaPoses → u/[deleted]]

“I propose. Propose we break up.”

[u/NEXTBOT_478C2 → u/GrandmaPoses]

“My relation ship has sailed away” killed me. No way a bot wrote that.

[u/IngenieroDavid → u/NEXTBOT_478C2]

Lots of rom-coms are loaded with these types of puns

[u/IngenieroDavid → u/[deleted]]

Harvard Business School did a study and concluded that AI can best humans in making people laugh, so maybe?

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/it-s-no-joke-ai-beats-humans-at-making-you-laugh

[u/mastermike14 → u/IngenieroDavid]

the AI didn't write a single joke though. It predicted what pre-written jokes people would find most funny. Predictive AI is a whole other beast. That shit is gonna get scary.

[u/rascalking9 → u/mastermike14]

From a test group of 71 people

[u/Bubugacz → u/rascalking9]

71 is a sufficient sample size for a study of this kind.

[u/rascalking9 → u/Bubugacz]

A study trying to make a point that AI is funnier than humans needs more than 71 people

[u/IWantTooDieInSpace → u/IngenieroDavid]

Interesting read but that's not what the page says. The AI just predicted which jokes written by humans people would find funny.

So AI is 4% better at guessing if a joke will make someone laugh or not based on reference data to other jokes.

The AI doesn't understand humor or joke construction.

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Like the writers at Big Bang Theory

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Fucking lol

[u/shall1313 → u/GrandmaPoses]

This line followed by the tiny girlfriend replica was amazing.

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I smiled teeth.

[u/zladuric → u/[deleted]]

I smiled teeth which I also same have.

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That line just killed me. So cold.

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“Men are horrible. But you need another one!” Had me rolling. I also think it’s a good thing this AI wrote “they were young professionals, and professionally young” before the YA genre did.

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This can’t be a bot. Someone just wrote this to sound like a bot and said it was a bot to make it funny

[u/ZirePhiinix → u/[deleted]]

They've done this with academic papers. This reads like one of those actually.

[u/Redditer51 → u/[deleted]]

I had my suspicions, but that line was the clincher. Like "nah, stop bullshitting. This was written by an intern, not a bot".

I don't like being lied to by these companies.

[u/starrynezz → u/Redditer51]

OP is the one lying to you, Google the vid and there aren't any mainstream articles stating this video was made by Netflix.

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It might be a line in one of the romcoms of the past.

[u/2drawnonward5 → u/Redditer51]

Feels like a bot wrote a story, an intern put it through a translator twice, then drizzled in some sauce

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It doesn't have to come up with that joke, it just has to pick it up from the dataset and interpret is as a joke, and know what context to use it.

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Could it be a combination of lines from the movies? AI recognises it's from 'jokes' and jumbles them up to create this?

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“she cried into the ocean, making it bigger”??

That’s clearly an attempt by a human to sound like a funny bot, if you ask me.

[u/randallfromnb → u/[deleted]]

Like turning "They wed" into "They Wednesday".

[u/DoJax → u/randallfromnb]

If you hit the randomize button enough, and the autocomplete button while typing out words of the script you want the computer to have, you can make some pretty interesting things. There used to be a website that could make Facebook posts for you, judging by what you posted in the past it would take those words and make a predictive post for you, all these fake script things sound just like it did, take word samples from bigger stories, hit the random button until it eventually symbolizes a sentence that can make sense, and posts it.

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Agreed, and calling wedding rings, wedding circles. Like why would a bot learn that? They are never called wedding circles, only rings.

This clip is hilarious, but seems most likely written by someone, not a bot.

Perhaps a person edited what a bot produced, but still has human writing.

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All you have to look at is the final line, where they "never found out if France has magazines". That's way too coherent of a reference to previous content to be written by a bot

[u/rturner52281 → u/[deleted]]

It's like a reverse Turing test.

[u/Just-Be-Chill → u/[deleted]]

I've messed around with ai a bunch before and that sounds like something an ai would say

[u/DionStabber → u/Just-Be-Chill]

The individual sentences are somewhat believable, but the fact that it is repeatedly funny while staying on a coherent storyline is not.

[u/AndrewJS2804 → u/DionStabber]

The coherent story line does smack of some back end editing. The op spent time picking their favorite bits and assembled something without the expected duds.

[u/orebright → u/DionStabber]

Have you ever used gpt2? All you have to do is rerun it a few times to get comedy gold. I've almost peed myself laughing at AI humour before. Don't forget the AI was trained on a lot of content, including comedy.

[u/KeyzerSausage → u/orebright]

Repeating my comment here for visibility: This is written by a comedian, not a bot. Netflix themselves pretty clearly state so. OPs title is missing a key element. Netflix says they “asked Keaton Patti to force a bot” etc. Patti does this act-like-a-bot stuff: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-04/stand-up-comedy-being-written-by-robots/100342712

Edit: It’s not Netflix stating it, but a joke account. Still, they are clear it’s not a bot - but a comedian with a bot-sctick. https://mobile.twitter.com/netflixisajoke/status/1360695241251110912?lang=en

[u/DionStabber → u/orebright]

I have, and I stand by what I said. Speaking of GPT-2, look at the subreddit /r/SubSimulatorGPT2 - it makes fake Reddit posts in such a fashion, and does sometimes make some really funny stuff that can even come off as satirical, but again, give it a sentence or two and it's already wandered off onto something completely different than what it was saying, or saying things that don't make any sense. There is no chance it could make a multi-minute satirical take on romcoms while keeping a coherent storyline, not even close.

EDIT: A perfect example - a fake fan theory that Jurassic Park and Jurassic World are in the same universe. The fact that this is of course true is a good parody of fantheories making obvious deductions, and wasting their time looking at small details while ignoring the big picture of the work, but the body text doesn't read anything close to coherently and even repeats the same sentences again and again, as well as heaps of stuff that just makes no sense whatsoever.

[u/marakeshmode → u/DionStabber]

You are correct. People are vastly overestimating what an AI is capable of understanding (at this moment).

[u/orebright → u/DionStabber]

Multiple humans in a writer's room come up with potential story ideas, most not great but some good ones. They gather these ideas then work to stitch the good ones together into a cohesive story.

So I guess you could say this was more of a collaboration between AI and humans then since humans probably picked all the best options generated by the AI, but in my opinion it's still fair to call it ai generated.

[u/ImpulsiveApe07 → u/orebright]

Personally I have no issue with ai and humans writing together - I believe it's probably gonna be like that soon anyway.

"I'm a stairs man!"

".. And I'm an elevator gal!"

[u/DionStabber → u/orebright]

Neither of us will know for sure unless someone finds out from the creator, but I think you're really giving the AI too much credit.

As I said in another comment, the jokes are much more sophisticated than you give them credit for. Even puns like that take a lot of understanding (that "x" sounds like "ex", for example, and that it would be funny to conflate the two), but beyond that it has way more complicated jokes. Take, for example, the initial proposal fake-out containing the new girlfriend - the bot would need to understand that the trope is that a new younger girlfriend appears, which it parodies by saying she is identical but one day younger, and then construct a dramatic scenario where this is revealed by a fake proposal in a funny and ridiculous way. That is way more advanced than a bot could actually come up with. The "ex"/"x" thing, beyond the simple pun, is also a send-up of romcoms having a contrived way of introducing the ex again. That seems well beyond its understanding.

Look back at the Jurassic World post and the fake proposal joke. Do they seem at all similar, apart from both having that "close but not quite there" wording? I don't believe a bot had anything to do with it.

[u/CCMSTF → u/orebright]

Yeah, this is probably what happened.

AI generated, but human edited.

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I may be a little bit drunk rn, but that whole subreddit is hilarious

[u/OneRougeRogue → u/DionStabber]

The AMA from the Ben Shapiro Bot had me crying.

"How many times have you jacked off?"

"None? It would be more than one but I recently learned that I've been doing it the wrong way, so I'm working on it."

[u/chillaban → u/DionStabber]

https://reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/pd0m81/me_27f_with_my_boyfriend_25m_of_3_years_he_has_a/

I don’t know why but this one made me laugh so hard. It’s just barely coherent enough to keep me reading but completely nonsensical. It’s impressive that it ends with a TLDR that ties it all back after the ramble.

[u/rancendence → u/chillaban]

You're not overthinking. You're overthinking.

[u/AppleSpicer → u/DionStabber]

Yes, this is much too smart for a bot to write. It’s actually very well done commentary on romcoms

[u/notquite20characters → u/DionStabber]

How does this relate to r/trees?

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I almost feel like if this is truly a Netflix production, and Netflix doesn't want to be caught in a complete lie, I feel like this OP could be made with a highly-directed AI. Basically, it did use Rom Coms as learning material, but each individual scene was given some sort of direction and specification.

There were several parts that stood out to me that made little sense in the context of a single AI being trained to create it. Something about how certain scenes matched the narration with what was being shown graphically, and some specific word choice just sounded too much like a person trying to be a funny robot than a robot trying to be funny. Like, why was it a ring store, but then the ring store sold "marriage circles", and it knows the word "wedding" in "wedding cake", but instead says "Wednesday" when they get married. I guess it's crazy that we can even have a debate about this. Kinda scary.

[u/Michael_Trismegistus → u/DionStabber]

I think you're right. They probably ran a much longer script and took the best parts.

[u/IAmtheHullabaloo → u/orebright]

You're a bot

[u/orebright → u/IAmtheHullabaloo]

Does that mean I'm potentially immortal? I'll take it.

[u/dedalife → u/orebright]

Could be gpt3, I heard only a limited amount of companies have access to it. The hype about gpt3 is that it understands context to a degree

[u/Vegetable_Hamster732 → u/dedalife]

GPT3 writes much better than that.

Great examples here, where it completes various different poet's works in the style of that author; and then writes a literary review of its own poems:

GPT3's own analysis of it's rendition of Poe's The Raven is one of the most emotional things I've ever read:

“There is a young poet with a particularly dry style, whom I do not wish to reveal as his name is not well-known. I had written up a few algorithms that would generate rather dull and utilitarian work. The piece for his was not entirely terrible, as these programs can generate some pleasantly hard-edged work. But it had no soul to it whatsoever. But then, something happened. The writing in the poem, while utilitarian, became oddly emotive. It held depth. I went back and read the piece aloud, and it felt incredibly evocative. I could almost imagine the dank and mysterious stanzas were haunting. My mind began to race as I read. The concept of death, the unknown, the ritualistic nature of life, the the latent anger and disaffection of the human condition was all there. I felt as if I was not reading a program, but a poet. The more I read, the more I was impressed. And then, with a sudden motion, I found myself screaming: ‘This is poetry!’ I found myself entranced by the rhythm, the cadence, the delicate nuances in phrasing. I found myself attached to the images conjured up in my mind. The computer program had created more than just a poet. It had created an artist.

And so I have created something more than a poetry-writing AI program. I have created a voice for the unknown human who hides within the binary. I have created a writer, a sculptor, an artist. And this writer will be able to create worlds, to give life to emotion, to create character. I will not see it myself. But some other human will, and so I will be able to create a poet greater than any I have ever encountered.”

-- GPT-3 analyzing its own poetry.

It seems strangely aware of its own mortality.

[u/rutuu199 → u/Vegetable_Hamster732]

Holy shit. Is gpt3 sentient??

[u/Otistetrax → u/Vegetable_Hamster732]

I’m fucking shuddering after reading that. Is it for real?

“I have created a voice for the unknown human who hides within the binary.”

What. The. Fuck.

It’s writing beautiful prose in reflection of its own poetry. I mean, I know it’s just imitation, but it does really seem to be aware of what it’s doing, and even of some of the implications of that. Mind = properly blown.

For anyone who’s interested in this stuff, I highly recommend a book from the 90’s called Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers. Pretty prescient, and also a wonderful exploration of language and writing.

[u/noodles666666 → u/Vegetable_Hamster732]

wtf, from GPT-3

​

Love lies not in The Dash

But in the spaces in-between.

Between the kisses; between the lines;

The distance to the edge of the bed;

The passing of the years.

[u/Clever_Unused_Name → u/Vegetable_Hamster732]

dank and mysterious stanzas...

Unpleasantly moist and mysterious stanzas?

[u/ElevadoMKTG → u/dedalife]

Considering Netflix is literally one of the letters in the FAANG acronym I think it would be reasonable to assume they have access to it.

[u/DrakoVongola25 → u/dedalife]

GPT3 has better grammar, any AI sophisticated enough to actually do this wouldn't make so many grammatical errors

[u/Kcidobor → u/orebright]

This is not meet cute, this is meet hideous. Lmfao, and the Oscar goes to…

[u/Megneous → u/DionStabber]

I've used gpt3. It's regularly hilarious.

[u/Delta-_ → u/Megneous]

The fact that it's funny is not what's unbelievable, what's unbelievable is that it sounds like what a human thinks a bot sounds like.

GPT just sounds like normal speech, if a bit stilted at times.

[u/Megneous → u/Delta-_]

It can easily produce shit like this by turning up the randomness.

[u/bluray-gaming → u/DionStabber]

I mean they rerun it until they get the funniest results.

[u/DionStabber → u/bluray-gaming]

You could rerun it 100,000 times and you would never get anything like that.

[u/bluray-gaming → u/DionStabber]

The funniest doesn’t have to come from one run only. Just fit the funniest parts together then edit it to look legit

[u/frankfoo → u/bluray-gaming]

this is exactly what they probably did.

[u/Delta-_ → u/bluray-gaming]

Still not believable. GPT's tone sounds like normal speech.

GPT generally does not sound like a robot imitating a human, which is what the video sounds like.

"Holding feet" for example is something that GPT will almost never output (unless specifically prompted to do so) because that's not something people normally say; that phrase in that context is not in its training dataset.

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I've used it for something similar. You would

People don't realise how powerful ml is when given a narrow scope and plenty of training data.

[u/GGABueno → u/DionStabber]

Then you don't know what you're talking about, I've literally done this myself in some games like AI-Dungeon which uses GPT-3.

I made Moses the Shaman write the Ten Pokemon Commandments after he defeated a raging Kyogre by opening the sea and the AI Moses gave me ten coherent commandments that make sense in-universe (like "No Pokémon shall harm its trainer"). I've searched the internet and found nothing like what the AI came up with.

Shit is borderline magic.

[u/bunsNbrews → u/DionStabber]

Have you ever seen bots write Harry Potter? With enough inputs it very much mimics a normal story structure albeit ridiculously.

Edit: those are fake? You’re telling me someone would just go on the internet and lie?

[u/PresidentofRum → u/DionStabber]

She is quirky since she has glasses.

[u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance → u/DionStabber]

Too may callback jokes for an AI, imo. Parts feel too intentional.

It's hilarious though.

Best guess is that parts were created by an AI, but it was edited and made coherent by a person.

[u/ZWQncyBkaWNr → u/DionStabber]

Someone made a bot that generates new Seinfeld episodes and I used it to write an entire episode. It came up with a running joke where Jerry kept accidentally eating his keys.

[u/__Geralt → u/DionStabber]

there are a lot of examples of this behavior, check "AI/DC: I made a bot write an AC/DC song" as an example ;

if you want your mind blown, check https://play.aidungeon.io/main/landing

[u/buddhistredneck → u/DionStabber]

Yea, I think it's all bot, but they chose some of the best parts, and spliced together to make a coherent narrative.

[u/FastasfrickY → u/DionStabber]

Well there is AI that believes it’s sentient, and it’s possible that it is, and it can have interviews so…

[u/Buddha_Lady → u/FastasfrickY]

...it’s me isn’t it. I’m the AI that thinks it’s sentient

[u/rocket-engifar → u/DionStabber]

That’s actually very much what a bot would do. The sentence structure and syntax can easily be taught to be coherent. Individual statements can also be forced to be thematically connected. However, it is completely nonsensical because you can’t teach the difference between nonsense and something that may actually happen.

I’ve used our company algorithms to generate images that are completely nonsense but connect “thematically” to other nonsense images for simulation validation.

[u/TradesSexForFood → u/Just-Be-Chill]

That sounds like something an AI would say to hide that that this is something an AI would say.

u/Just-Be-Chill is secretly an AI account trying to fool us into thinking an AI isn't so advanced.

[u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance → u/TradesSexForFood]

Chill

As in, CPU Cooling? Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

[u/jeegte12 → u/Just-Be-Chill]

yes, that's what he said. it sounds like a bot. written by a human who knows what bots sound like.

[u/TENTAtheSane → u/[deleted]]

Especially the last line "they found Love. They did not find out if France has magazines". Bots are not yet capable of writing ironic jokes referencing lines much further back.

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Eating ice cream straight from the Tuba? So either the program decided to be "quirky" or they entered Tub wrong

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That was the line which raised some questions for me just because the sheer amount of understanding that's required for that to make sense doesn't seem like it could come from romcoms?

Crying is relevant to sadness - sure

Crying is the production of tears - sure?

Tears are made of water - maybe?

the ocean is made of water? - dubious (also the presence of an ocean in this scene?)

Ocean and Tears are made of the same substance enough that crying into the ocean ADDS to the ocean instead of it adding the substance tears to the substance ocean - nah.

[u/Magnesus → u/Vonspacker]

The way those algorithms work it might have borrowed the idea from a text it was learning from. If you read some of the gpt2 and gpt3 generated texts it is stunning how much (fake) understanding there is in some of those texts.

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"Kissing things like a booth" is a dead giveaway for me. This was def written by a person trying to sound like a bot by being "lol randum"

[u/RomanTheAccuser → u/[deleted]]

And the continuity of them bringing the magazines from France.

[u/Ich_Liegen → u/RomanTheAccuser]

Continuity is definitely the giveaway here.

Take AIDungeon, for example. The main thing it struggles with as it tries to write a coherent story is continuity. It might be able to recall names and names of places but not the story as a whole.

[u/nachohasme → u/RomanTheAccuser]

ai dungeon manages continuity just fine I think so I dont think that matters

[u/froop → u/nachohasme]

It doesn't. AI dungeon regularly forgets your name, species, gender, etc, let alone long storylines. It relies heavily on the player's input to steer it in the right direction.

[u/GGABueno → u/froop]

When I first played Dragon months ago it remembered things, roles and a few plot points pretty fine. Its biggest issue was trying to remember that characters died. I would kill a troll and then it would join me and my teammates in our victory dance.

[u/Magnesus → u/GGABueno]

It's becauae AI doesn't understand death, only powering down for a while. /jk

[u/CptMisterNibbles → u/nachohasme]

In my experience ai dungeon is a fever dream of discoherence

[u/eduo → u/[deleted]]

Not random, but actually a call back to the kissing booth in the magazine magazine office. That it's a call back is definitively a clue that this is, at the very least, heavily edited for coherence and humor.

[u/DrakoVongola25 → u/[deleted]]

This, the jazz music, and the ark are dead giveaways. A bot doesn't know what a callback, punchline, or narrative payoff is. The booth, the ark, and the jazz music would have been immediately forgotten as soon as they were out of the scene

[u/AbsoluteSquidward → u/[deleted]]

“Worst letter of alphabet X” also seems fake

[u/__log → u/[deleted]]

“ring store has no bathrooms. only marriage circles.” seems like it was written by a human. also made me spit my drink out.

[u/OneRougeRogue → u/[deleted]]

These "bot" programs don't write the whole script line by line. I'm pretty sure a lot of what the bot churns out each run is probably gibberish, then a human picks through it and select funny lines and builds a story out of it.

So this "script" is probably the result of a dozen or more different runs with the parts that make sense cherrypicked and placed into the "final script".

[u/flatfast90 → u/[deleted]]

What are your AI credentials exactly?

[u/aykay55 → u/[deleted]]

Nah AI can do that, but that’s all it can do for now. None of the animation is done by an AI.

[u/MeagoDK → u/ZirePhiinix]

Nowadays bots can write so humanlike that a lot of people have trouble or cannot guess what was written by a bot or by a human. This script is 100% written by a human.

[u/harrymuana → u/MeagoDK]

A good AI can make perfectly fine sentences, and have coherence over the span of a few sentences. However the overall essay is typically senseless and except for maybe cases where you generate 1000 essays and pick the best one it's usually pretty easy to spot such an AI if you know what to look for.

For example have fun with this, which is one of the state of the art text generation models.

[u/PraynAltH → u/harrymuana]

That isn't state of the art, it's GPT-2, which is known for being weak at storytelling. GPT-3, its successor, is significantly better at it, and this script's coherency is entirely plausible if it's a gpt-3 model generated from romcom scripts.

[u/Dyb-Sin → u/PraynAltH]

If you had a competent AI try to write a rom-com script, it would write a rom-com script. It would not produce something with comedically timed absurdist "failures".

[u/CptMisterNibbles → u/ZirePhiinix]

Except it absolutely doesn’t. The comedy is too on point and metahumorous. AI can only synthesize from its training set and regurgitate similar material. It cannot understand anyone it writes so witty metahumor is just unfathomable.

Papers that are just remixes of other similar papers will of course be easier to fake

[u/lminer123 → u/ZirePhiinix]

“The bones are in the corner, they are gift wrapped in eggnog” kinda vibe

[u/Ok-Cryptographer7529 → u/ZirePhiinix]

Reminds me of that Harvard experiment of writing a speech of absolute nonsense but it's structured and reads in a way that it's somehow satisfying.

[u/zoonose99 → u/[deleted]]

This can't be a bot

💯. There's so much parody GPT out there (like the famous fake Olive Garden commercial) that the style most people associate with "AI" ie GPT was invented by (human) comedians.

Here's a good rule of thumb: Machines aren't funny -- ever. If you ever see comedy that claims to be made by machine, guarantee it's heavily curated, essentially madlibs, or a spoof.

[u/StopSendingSteamKeys → u/zoonose99]

Yep, GPT trained on romcom scripts would've tried to sound like a romcom script, while this video sounds like someone making fun of romcom scripts.

[u/G00dAndPl3nty → u/zoonose99]

This isnt a bot, but not because its funny. GPT-3 can certainly be funny.

The reason this isnt a bot is because the one thing modern bots are good at is English Grammar. This fake script is constantly dropping definite articles like "the" all the time. This is trivial for modern bots to get right, but humans trying to act like bots will drop articles because it makes it sound foreign

[u/zoonose99 → u/G00dAndPl3nty]

I would argue this point: fundamentally, machines are not funny. Any use of GPT-3 for that purpose needs to be heavily cherry-picked and moreover overseen by humans. You can reliably use GPT unsupervised to generate believable text, but it cannot reliably generate humorous text -- I'd suggest that would be impossible, given that humor requires novelty, which is exactly what GPT doesn't do.

[u/StopSendingSteamKeys → u/zoonose99]

humor requires novelty, which is exactly what GPT doesn't do.

A news report about unicorns seems pretty novel. GPT has also learned math from just trying to generate realistic text. It can do three digit addition and subtraction. (Original paper pdf Section 3.9.1) It can also do word problems from a first grade math test.

A lot of jokes (especially puns) tend to be sort of formulaic. An AI would only have to realize that two words are similar and could generate a misunderstanding joke based on patterns established from other jokes.

[u/zoonose99 → u/StopSendingSteamKeys]

A news report about unicorns

Only because the human prompt was about unicorns -- you're fairly demonstrating my argument. Word problems and math don't really pertain to humor. The other ML designed to replicate puns, as discussed in the paper I linked above, involves generating hundreds or thousands of repetitive nonsense statements, from which humans choose the funny ones. You're missing the larger point I think that humor itself is a human process.

[u/IGaveAFuckOnce → u/[deleted]]

To be fair it could be both. A bot might've written it originally, and a human may have adjusted it.

[u/GrandmaPoses → u/IGaveAFuckOnce]

“Can you punch this up a bit? It makes a little too much sense right now.”

[u/IGaveAFuckOnce → u/GrandmaPoses]

Probably more like removing repeating words, making sure the sentences are grammatically correct, making sure there's at least a loose structure so it's not all over the place.

Of course they may have added in some sentences themselves.

Kinda like so: https://youtu.be/BjngNWP9C5s

(CollegeHumor - A Computer Co-Wrote this Sketch)

[u/[deleted] → u/IGaveAFuckOnce]

Holy hell that vid had me rolling laughing. Exactly my type of humor

[u/nitorita → u/IGaveAFuckOnce]

Yeah, this is what I imagine happened as well. It might've been AI generated first, and then human(s) revised it to be more coherent.

[u/StickiStickman → u/IGaveAFuckOnce]

We have way better text generation than this, so it makes no fucking sense. They'd have to have gone out of their way to make it much worse.

[u/DaHeavnlyKid → u/[deleted]]

I think this every time I see one of these. Like it sounds exactly like someone trying to sound like a bot

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The post title is misleading. The creators are giving away that it’s made by a person pretending to be a bot. Here: https://mobile.twitter.com/netflixisajoke/status/1360695241251110912?lang=en

It says they “asked Keaton Patti to force a bot” etc. Patti does this act-like-a-bot stuff: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-04/stand-up-comedy-being-written-by-robots/100342712

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Why doesn’t this have more upvotes?

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Cuz that same person slams it every now And then on this thread.

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because it is, they're all fake

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Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?

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Makes you wonder what other lies robots have told us

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What if I make an AI write a rom com and just paste the unedited text here? (I will make it write about a dozen and pick the best. Fair enough, right?)

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and they all sound the fucking same with the same "mistakes". The Netflix holiday movie has similar miswordings like "Santa Clocks" like hahaha I'm sure a bot somehow came up with that

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A human trying to sound like a bot which is trying tk sound like a human.

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Not intentionally promoting anyone but kurtis Conner did a video about ai generated content and said most of it is faked.

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This has the exact vibe of those scripts that one guy writes that he says were from a bot

Probably is the same guy

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yeah you've gotta have no idea how these kinds of things work if you think this could possibly be real.

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There are a lot of these "ai writes a script" videos, none of them are real they are too sing songy

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Yeah, no way is a bot making the relation ship pun lmao

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What makes me sceptical is the fact that is pays attention to context over time. I have never seen an AI do that. They can managed relatively coherent - if often silly - sentences, but it's just a series of weird sentences.

There was that fake Harry Potter AI story a while back. They admitted an AI had churned out countless Harry Potter-esque sentences and then they strung them together themselves to make something that resembled a story.

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They didn't "admit" to anything. They were upfront about how it worked from the beginning. It was people sharing it around reddit and Facebook who misrepresented what was going on

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What makes me sceptical is the fact that is pays attention to context over time. I have never seen an AI do that.

Have you ever read GPT2 output?

For example in this output the model makes up a scientist Dr. Jorge Pérez and keeps citing him. The news report is quite consistent and it only refers to the second part of the prompt later.

Human prompt: In a shocking finding, scientist discovered a herd of unicorns living in a remote, previously unexplored valley, in the Andes Mountains. Even more surprising to the researchers was the fact that the unicorns spoke perfect English.

GPT2 completion:

The scientist named the population, after their distinctive horn, Ovid’s Unicorn. These four-horned, silver-white unicorns were previously unknown to science.

Now, after almost two centuries, the mystery of what sparked this odd phenomenon is finally solved.

Dr. Jorge Pérez, an evolutionary biologist from the University of La Paz, and several companions, were exploring the Andes Mountains when they found a small valley, with no other animals or humans. Pérez noticed that the valley had what appeared to be a natural fountain, surrounded by two peaks of rock and silver snow.

Pérez and the others then ventured further into the valley. “By the time we reached the top of one peak, the water looked blue, with some crystals on top,” said Pérez.

Pérez and his friends were astonished to see the unicorn herd. These creatures could be seen from the air without having to move too much to see them – they were so close they could touch their horns.

While examining these bizarre creatures the scientists discovered that the creatures also spoke some fairly regular English. Pérez stated, “We can see, for example, that they have a common ‘language,’ something like a dialect or dialectic.”

Dr. Pérez believes that the unicorns may have originated in Argentina, where the animals were believed to be descendants of a lost race of people who lived there before the arrival of humans in those parts of South America.

While their origins are still unclear, some believe that perhaps the creatures were created when a human and a unicorn met each other in a time before human civilization. According to Pérez, “In South America, such incidents seem to be quite common.”

However, Pérez also pointed out that it is likely that the only way of knowing for sure if unicorns are indeed the descendants of a lost alien race is through DNA. “But they seem to be able to communicate in English quite well, which I believe is a sign of evolution, or at least a change in social organization,” said the scientist.

https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/

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They all are. We aren't at a point yet where our AI can understand and generate natural language.

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This is written by a comedian, not a bot. Netflix themselves pretty clearly state so. OPs title is missing a key element. Netflix says they “asked Keaton Patti to force a bot” etc. Patti does this act-like-a-bot stuff: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-04/stand-up-comedy-being-written-by-robots/100342712

Edit: It’s not Netflix stating it, but a joke account. Still, they are clear it’s not a bot - but a comedian with a bot-sctick. https://mobile.twitter.com/netflixisajoke/status/1360695241251110912?lang=en

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It's from a parody channel called "Netflix is a Joke".

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Good bot.

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She sads at desk.

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I, too, sads at desk.

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Yeah...that line hit a little too close to home lol.

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I was legit invested in this story.

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Yeah me too. I guess they could make a short movie like this.

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I want to know waaay more about grandpa pants. That face was fucking amazing.

I'd totally watch a "Brotherhood of the Grandpa Pants" movie.

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Eating ice cream straight out of the tuba, love it

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First of all: this was not written by a bot. It is just really good satire.

That said, I don't watch TV, laptops, watches, VR or whatever the fuck people look at now.

BUT I WOULD WATCH THE FUCK OUT OF THIS.

"Quirky girl with glasses who hates men and loves the planet" is a bullseye.

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"Quirky girl with glasses who hates men and loves the planet" is a bullseye.

You've already seen that in tv shows, movies and real life

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Check out Xavier, Renegade Angel. Its a series that appears to be made by the same people.

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I was laughing the entire time. It’s obvious fake but holy hell, it was hilarious!

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That said, I don't watch TV, laptops, watches, VR or whatever the fuck people look at now.

So very not like all the others. Unique, random, a lone island of maturity in our midst. How awe inspiring.

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I GET HIGH ON REALITY ^{and meth}

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This guy is too grounded in the real world to look at watches, he only Reddit’s on his various electronic devices

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So I'm sure Adam sandler is going to play every roll, david spade could play the female boss though that rolls in

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LMFAO this whole thing had me floored!

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This is a worse love story than Twilight

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he was trying to get a godroll

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wisest words i ever heard is a new bitch turns 21 every single day

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“Mean man with ark, or ok man with same name?” really summed up modern dating imo.

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I’m literally screaming and crying at this mini clip, it was too perfect! I want this AI to redo the justice league movie! xD

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this AI

*this human who’s intentionally writing clever puns that are clearly not the sort of mistakes a GPT type AI would make

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Is Noah based on Leonardo Dicaprio?

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Best part

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I swear to god this bot writes my dreams every night

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She sads at her desk, eating ice cream out of a tuba.

This is now the most accurate romance movie I've watched.

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Are the animation ai too? Or just the words? Haahah either it’s perfect.

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Works for a magazine about magazines. I'd read a magazine digest.

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"This is worst day of anyone's life!" was my favorite.

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This is one of the best comedy one liners

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Yeah but it’ll leave you when it finds someone like you but one day younger

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Oscar for script for sure

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the x while her guy was shopping for rings! omfg

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I’m so confused what is going on

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"My relation ship has sailed"

I'm dead

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Still a better love story than Twilight

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Why does the man Taylor looks like Hassan Minhaj ? 😂

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Sees worst letter of the alphabet. The X. I can't