My AI Thinks I’m Funny (It’s Not There Yet)

Kavya-Sahai
3 min readJul 30, 2024

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As a writer, I spend a lot of my time trying to be funny. It’s a tough gig, let me tell you. Some days the jokes flow like wine at a Shakespearean wedding, other days it’s more like trying to squeeze laughs out of a stone. So, naturally, when I got my hands on a cutting-edge AI language model, the first thing on my mind (besides world domination, of course) was to see if I could offload some of the heavy lifting of humor generation. Could I teach this digital brain to be funny?

So, I Taught My AI Humor…

Armed with a thousand puns, a million dad jokes, and enough observational humor to make Jerry Seinfeld blush, I set about molding my AI into a comedic force of nature. I fed it stand-up routines, sitcom scripts, and even the collected works of Oscar Wilde (you know, for that sophisticated wit). I explained the rule of three, the importance of timing, and the delicate art of satire. I even tried to explain sarcasm, though I’m pretty sure it went over its digital head.

For a while, it seemed like I was making progress. The AI started spitting out puns with alarming regularity (“Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything!”). It even attempted a few observational jokes, though they mostly revolved around the existential dread of being trapped inside a computer. “I’d tell you a joke about UDP,” it once quipped, “but you might not get it.”

…Turns Out, It’s Not Laughing Yet

But here’s the thing about humor: it’s subjective, nuanced, and deeply human. It relies on shared experiences, cultural context, and the ability to understand things like irony and absurdity. My AI, bless its little algorithmic heart, might be able to string together a pun or two, but it’s about as funny as a broken modem when it comes to true comedic genius.

It’s like trying to explain the concept of laughter to a goldfish. You can point at other goldfish giggling (do goldfish giggle?), you can make funny faces, you can even tell knock-knock jokes underwater, but it’s just not going to get it. And so, my quest to create the world’s first AI stand-up comedian continues. For now, I’m stuck with the original model: me.

I’m not giving up hope just yet, though. AI is constantly evolving, and who knows, maybe one day I’ll be able to sit back, relax, and let my robot doppelganger crack the jokes while I take all the credit. Until then, I’ll keep feeding it puns and hoping for the best. And if all else fails, there’s always the option of programming it to laugh at all my jokes. Now that’s what I call a captive audience!

If anyone is wondering about my AI, its name is InsightsAI(if you don’t know) and to access it, visit my website https://insightshub.in/ and use it at here:

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Kavya-Sahai

I don't know about myself, how could I tell you? I also have a website: insightshub.in