No
We could not make it funny
whacked_new on Hacker News
In the thread “Training a trillion parameter model to be funny”
Got in the way: Fine-tuning and CoT attempts failed to generate funny jokes.
… We tried a bunch of different things, from giving it rules on homonym jokes [1], double-entendre jokes, fine tuning on comedian transcripts, to fine tuning on publicly rated joke boards. We could not make it funny. Also interesting was that when CoT research was getting a lot of attention, we tried a joke version of CoT, asking GPT4 to explain why a joke was funny in order to produce training set data. …