“If you were a tree, what kind would you be?” – Anonymous question from “The Dating Game” The air is thick with the scent of Old Spice and cigarette smoke. Yet, there I am, decked out in my polyester best, ready to embark on the most bewildering challenge of my life – my first job interview. In the late 1960s,…
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The Art of the Obituary A Dying Tradition
Have you ever found yourself chuckling while reading an obituary? If not, you’re in for a treat. Death doesn’t always have to be depressing. In this article, I wanted to see if ChatGPT could help take the sting out of writing obituaries. A craft that, contrary to popular belief, can be brimming with life, laughter, and a touch of irreverence.…
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A Minor Blump In the Toad Explaining the New Roman Numeral Metric System
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 16, 2024 By John C. Breckinridge Senior Science and Mathematics Writer The Journal of Emergent Complex Situations Bugtussle, KY – In an unprecedented event that challenges societal norms, an eminent malware attack threatens to simultaneously convert all Arabic numbers to Roman Numerals and switch the United States customary unit system to the metric system. The resulting…
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Where’s ChatGPT’s Sense of Humor? AI's Unfunny Reality
If you’re as old as I am (which is pretty dang old) you might remember a simple book of games called Madlibs. The object was simple: the “writer” would taunt the players into blindly supplying nouns, adjectives, names of famous people, etc. with no idea how they were going to be used. The writer would plug them into blanks in…
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Does Artificial Intelligence Have a Sense of Humor? How ChatGPT can help improve a humor writer’s process
A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, “What is this, a joke?” – ChatGPT’s attempt at writing humor. Does artificial intelligence have a sense of humor? Can ChatGPT change a writer’s process? Particularly humor writing? To the uninitiated, ChatGPT somehow “sterilizes” humor writing. That it’s incapable of understanding and creating…
