Witscript 2: A System for Generating Improvised Jokes Without Wordplay

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03036v1
• Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 21:51:55 GMT
• Title: Witscript 2: A System for Generating Improvised Jokes Without Wordplay
• Authors: Joe Toplyn
• Abstract summary: Witscript 2 uses a large language model to generate conversational jokes that rely on common sense instead of wordplay. Human evaluators judged Witscript 2's responses to input sentences to be jokes 46% of the time, compared to 70% of the time for human-written responses.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: A previous paper presented Witscript, a system for generating conversational jokes that rely on wordplay. This paper extends that work by presenting Witscript 2, which uses a large language model to generate conversational jokes that rely on common sense instead of wordplay. Like Witscript, Witscript 2 is based on joke-writing algorithms created by an expert comedy writer. Human evaluators judged Witscript 2's responses to input sentences to be jokes 46% of the time, compared to 70% of the time for human-written responses. This is evidence that Witscript 2 represents another step toward giving a chatbot a humanlike sense of humor.

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