My intuition, completely unjustified, is jokes will prove easier than most suspect, even very good jokes. Unfortunately, there are large incentives to hobble the humor of such models—but greentext prompts provide a small hint of what they are capable of. I suspect explicitly optimizing for humor would work surprisingly well. It would be interesting to use :berk: or other Discord reactions as data for this.
One idea for a short story I never explored is the eternal sitcom—a story about a future where everyone has AR glasses and a humor model feeding them good lines.
There would be a scene at the start where a comedian deals with hecklers, and plays with them as a judo master does a neophyte, and a scene in the middle where an augmented heckler—a “clever Hans” - (one of the first users of the model) “completely destroys” the comedian.
Story idea: AI strategically uses humor to defeat humans. Basically, if AI wants to prevent you from doing something, it will invent and make popular a really funny joke that will completely annihilate your status if someone tells the joke after you proposed doing the thing, or worse, were observed doing the thing.
Something like “if you worry about too many paperclips, you are just compensating for a short penis”, only hysterically funny, so it is impossible to ever comment on the paperclip industry growing exponentially without someone responding with the joke and completely derailing the debate.
It should be a sequence of jokes, increasingly funny, following multiple steps of a strategy AI uses to get more power. At the beginning, it just seems random; towards the middle of the story it becomes obvious to the protagonist that the taboo topics are all about things that make the AI more powerful. Yet the protagonist is afraid to comment on that, after watching other people getting socially destroyed by commenting on the latest taboos.
(Bonus points if the author of the story uses an actual chatbot to invent the jokes.)
Humour is already a powerful weapon of human manipulation. Our ex prime minister Boris Johnson wouldn’t have lasted nearly as long as he did (probably would never have got in) if he weren’t very good at getting us all to laugh.
My intuition, completely unjustified, is jokes will prove easier than most suspect, even very good jokes. Unfortunately, there are large incentives to hobble the humor of such models—but greentext prompts provide a small hint of what they are capable of. I suspect explicitly optimizing for humor would work surprisingly well. It would be interesting to use :berk: or other Discord reactions as data for this.
One idea for a short story I never explored is the eternal sitcom—a story about a future where everyone has AR glasses and a humor model feeding them good lines.
There would be a scene at the start where a comedian deals with hecklers, and plays with them as a judo master does a neophyte, and a scene in the middle where an augmented heckler—a “clever Hans” - (one of the first users of the model) “completely destroys” the comedian.
Story idea: AI strategically uses humor to defeat humans. Basically, if AI wants to prevent you from doing something, it will invent and make popular a really funny joke that will completely annihilate your status if someone tells the joke after you proposed doing the thing, or worse, were observed doing the thing.
Something like “if you worry about too many paperclips, you are just compensating for a short penis”, only hysterically funny, so it is impossible to ever comment on the paperclip industry growing exponentially without someone responding with the joke and completely derailing the debate.
It should be a sequence of jokes, increasingly funny, following multiple steps of a strategy AI uses to get more power. At the beginning, it just seems random; towards the middle of the story it becomes obvious to the protagonist that the taboo topics are all about things that make the AI more powerful. Yet the protagonist is afraid to comment on that, after watching other people getting socially destroyed by commenting on the latest taboos.
(Bonus points if the author of the story uses an actual chatbot to invent the jokes.)
Humour is already a powerful weapon of human manipulation. Our ex prime minister Boris Johnson wouldn’t have lasted nearly as long as he did (probably would never have got in) if he weren’t very good at getting us all to laugh.