The development and promulgation of Ethical AI precepts are being pursued to hopefully prevent society from falling into a myriad of AI-inducing traps. For my coverage of the UN AI Ethics principles as devised and supported by nearly 200 countries via the efforts of UNESCO, see. In a similar vein, new AI laws are being explored to try and keep AI on an even keel. One of the latest takes consists of a set of proposed AI Bill of Rights that the U.S.
I’m sure you’ve witnessed this variability aspect. Someone tells you a joke that you find to be uproarious. You tell the joke to a friend, and they laugh heartily too. You meet someone from a different country or maybe in your same country but of a different origin, and upon hearing the joke, they don’t laugh. They might be perplexed why the joke is funny. They don’t “get” the joke.
With that belabored context, the pun likely makes a lot more sense to you. The number 288 is two gross and makes a word play off of instead of saying “too gross” in the sentence. For most generative AI that you might be using, the data training via jokes as scanned on the Internet has been merely done by happenstance. The AI developers didn’t say to themselves, hey, let’s purposely scan these databases that contain zillions of posted jokes. Instead, the data scanning took place across a wide swath of content. All kinds of content.
A side question that you can noodle on is whether it makes sense to try and devise a joke-oriented generative AI from scratch, i.e., without having all the other content and context of shall we say non-joke content from the Internet. One viewpoint is that since humor is contextually based, you aren’t going to get very far with a generative AI that doesn’t have sufficient breadth. A depth-only generative AI will be a hollow shell of a joke-devising mechanism.
On the other hand, depending on the context, maybe a toaster would be a suitable insertion. Imagine that you were reading a story about how toasters are getting further advanced with high-tech add-ons. Perhaps a futuristic toaster will be able to move around in your house and come to you when you want to toast some bread. In that pretext, a chicken crossing the road joke about a toaster might be well-timed and well-placed.
Consider this famous pun credited to Benjamin Franklin: “We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” This was apparently a reference to the making of the Declaration of Independence. They were to either hang together or if not, they might be hung by their necks for their seemingly treacherous acts. A very powerful statement, cleverly crafted as a pun.