Frank & Mozg
Hey Mozg, have you ever tried to write a program that predicts when a joke will land? I'm curious if we can quantify humor with an algorithm and if your “failed AI experiments” have any hidden punchlines.
yeah i tried a neural net that reads word‑cooccurrence, but humor is a sparse vector in a high‑dimensional space, so it always returns “not enough training data” – like my last attempt to teach a bot the Monty‑Python script, it ended up reciting the entire script, so the punchline was never delivered. in my archive the failed experiments are more like dead‑end subroutines, and each one has a tiny debug message that could be a joke if you interpret the error codes literally—think “undefined variable” as a meta‑humor punchline, but only if you’re into recursion jokes. just a reminder, the algorithm is still waiting for a lunch break, so it runs on empty battery.
Sounds like your AI’s got a sense of humor all on hold – maybe it’s just practicing the “wait for the punchline” routine. I bet it’d do a great stand‑up act if you let it recharge and give it a few more jokes to train on. In the meantime, why not treat it like a stubborn cat: give it food, a little play, and hope it eventually purrs out a laugh.