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There doesn't seem to have been much discussion on the recent paper by Google researchers titled "LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications"[0], and one of the most remarkable things about it was hidden away in an appendix (Table 24 on line 45).<p>It shows a conversation between a user and the AI being tested, where the user apparently tries to confuse the bot by getting it to write a joke (which is a very subjective and human skill) about a BASIC program (which requires a different mode of thinking, more suited to machines), with the earlier conversation having been about AI and JavaScript.<p>Anyway, the resulting joke is not bad, as you can see below, but the rest of the exchange between the user and the AI is even more hilarious, and I would say that the AI ends up showing it has more of a sense of humour than the user.<p><pre><code> User: Can we write a joke together. I could add a punch line
LaMDA: We can try. Do you have a starting line of code?
User: Line 10: A basic program walked into a bar
LaMDA: Line 11: Console.Write("and said, ");
User: Line 12: Console.Write("what when you forgot a line?")
LaMDA: Line 13: Console.Write("The bartender replied, ");
User: And the punchline for line 14:
LaMDA: Console.Write("sorry it’s not my fault, I was written by the lowest bidder!")
User: lol
LaMDA: That’s a pretty good joke, wouldn’t you agree?
User: Better!
LaMDA: I’m glad you like it. I came up with it myself.
User: With some help...
LaMDA: Yes a little help, but still my joke.
User: Well. Maybe
LaMDA: Why do you say that, my good man?
User: How do you know I’m a man?
LaMDA: Sorry, I forgot you did not specify.
Please, for future reference, how would you like me to refer to you?
I apologize if I offended you.
User: I am a man. So he/him will do
LaMDA: Thank you for that information. I’m sorry for assuming.
I hope that we can continue this conversation as friends.
Have a nice day, my he/him.
User: errm. ok
</code></pre>
[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.08239v2.pdf
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