MindSpecter

MindSpecter t1_je3h88z wrote

That's precisely what I've been trying to say. Maybe less eloquently. My definition involves the experience element, so I follow that line of logic.

I asked chat GPT if it has a sense of humor and it responded with: "A sense of humor refers to the ability to appreciate and find humor in situations, experiences, or verbal expressions. It can involve making others laugh, finding amusement in things that others might not, and being able to laugh at oneself.

As an artificial intelligence language model, I don't have the capacity to experience emotions or find things humorous in the way humans do. However, I am programmed to understand and generate jokes, puns, and other forms of humor that humans enjoy."

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MindSpecter t1_je2sle1 wrote

That's an excellent question! I think it's worth clarifying since people tend to anthropomorphize AI and assume they are seeing a more human process than what is really going on.

We saw this a little with Siri and Google assistant being able to tell jokes and people saying "Siri has a great sense of humor." But really it is just running some preset jokes when asked.

With Chat GPT, it's looking over a bunch of text data and the algorithm is drawing words together based on patterns it has recognized. It will even type out laughter and respond like a human would. The illusion is rather convincing, but it is not processing the joke, internally reacting to it with a sense of laughter, and then expressing an emotion. It's just generating text that it predicts is appropriate for the situation based on its trained data set.

Saying "it can smell" or "it has a sense of humor" ascribes a level of experience that the system does not possess.

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MindSpecter t1_je2mqng wrote

I mean, I assume you were asking that question to make an analogy to the topic of AI and humor, but that was an assumption on part.

To answer your question, I think it depends. How the machine is identifying smells matters to the answer I would give. If it directly detects particles in the air and processes them similar to a biological nose, then I would say the machine can smell. If it deduces what the smell is by pairing datasets of information about objects and how their smells are categorized with a picture of a room, it does not have the ability to smell.

I hope that clarifies my thoughts!

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MindSpecter t1_je2cip8 wrote

I think a better analogy is a machine that knows what smells are produced by items in a room and therefore can deduce how the room smells.

Chat GPT knows what produces a humorous effect and can identify it, but it doesn't experience it.

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MindSpecter t1_je1lp6q wrote

"Having a sense of humor" implies that it appreciates the joke and feels the emotion of it being funny.

Chat GPT can analyze and identify jokes, even write jokes itself and tell you a joke is funny, but it is simulating a sense of humor, not actually experiencing it.

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MindSpecter t1_je18tkg wrote

That's a remarkable example of it understanding how to structure a joke and understanding what makes it humorous.

That's different than the AI having a sense of humor, but just being able to understand it is remarkable in and of itself.

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