Software Engineering Meets Comedy: Evaluating LLMs As Creativity Tools
Researchers evaluate if large language models (LLMs) can aid comedians by generating humorous content & aligning with human humor styles, finding significant gaps in nuance & contextual awareness.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Evaluating Language Models as Comedy Support Tools: Humor Alignment with Professional Comedians. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should subscribe to the AImodels.fyi newsletter or follow me on Twitter. Overview This paper explores the potential for large language models (LLMs) to serve as creativity support tools for comedy, by evaluating how well the humor alignment of LLMs matches that of professional comedians. The researchers investigate whether LLMs can be used to generate humorous content, and whether th...