[ACCount37]

Ah yes, the legendary "big model smell".

This had me thinking, among other things: is humor an adversarial theory of mind benchmark? Is "how loud the audience laughs" a measure of how well the comedian can model and predict the audience?

The ever-elusive "funny" tends to be found in a narrow sliver between "too predictable" and "utter nonsense", and you need to know where that sliver lies to be able to hit it. You need to predict how your audience predicts.

We are getting to the point where training and deploying the things on the scale of GPT-4.5 becomes economical. So, expect funnier AIs in the future?

[eru]

Human humour certainly has a tinge of 'showing of your smarts' to it.