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Tell HN: AIs Do Not Laugh

1•AnimalMuppet•43m ago
So far as I can tell, AIs do not laugh. Ever.

I mean, you can hook one up to a speaker, and get it to emit the sound. Or you can ask it to write a joke, and it will. But they don't laugh. They don't find things funny.

As people anthropomorphize AIs, this is going to be a difference. AIs are internally different than humans. They have no intrinsic sense of humor.

I'm not sure how far to take this, but I thought it was an interesting observation.

Comments

ingonealan3•22m ago
Don't stop there: it's not just that LLMs are "internally different", there is no inside there. There is no internal experience taking place. There is no thinking, and probably more importantly, no understanding.

But the result that the algorithm generates tickles our language pattern recognition, which our brains interpret as an interaction with an intelligent, conscious actor.

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