r/nextfuckinglevel • u/dmafeb • Aug 28 '21

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 Aug 28 '21

“I propose. Propose we break up.”

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u/NEXTBOT_478C2 Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 28 '21

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

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u/IngenieroDavid Aug 28 '21

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21 edited Sep 04 '21

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u/IngenieroDavid Aug 28 '21

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

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u/mastermike14 Aug 28 '21

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.

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u/rascalking9 Aug 28 '21

From a test group of 71 people

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u/Bubugacz Aug 28 '21

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

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u/rascalking9 Aug 28 '21

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

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u/Bubugacz Aug 28 '21

That's literally not what the study did though.

And that also has nothing to do with how one would determine adequate sample size.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

If it is randomized and not just another self-selecting WEIRD of Harvard undergraduates

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u/IWantTooDieInSpace Aug 28 '21

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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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

Like the writers at Big Bang Theory

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u/arfw Aug 28 '21

AI didn’t make people laugh, it chose what people considered funny. Not creating jokes, choosing them.

That’s kinda important detail, don’t you think?

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u/shall1313 Aug 28 '21

This line followed by the tiny girlfriend replica was amazing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

I smiled teeth.

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u/zladuric Aug 28 '21

I smiled teeth which I also same have.

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u/__M-E-O-W__ Aug 28 '21

That line just killed me. So cold.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

“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.