The Interrogation of a Punchline (Or: How to Break the AI's Brain for Fun)
A horse walked into a bar Let's be honest. Over on Foxxfyrre Writes, I played the responsible writing instructor. I told you how to take a punchline and use it to reverse-engineer the logic of a joke. I talked about letting ideas collide and allowing chaos to breathe. Over on Medium, I put on my reading glasses and wrote a very serious essay about "interrogating" the AI. I explained how pushing the machine with ethical and metaphysical edge cases forces it to use reasoning, which eventually looks exactly like character. But here in the Honk'n'Holl'r? Here is where I admit that I wasn't setting out to do high-level character development. Half the time, I was just handing the AI an absolutely impossible punchline just to see if it would blink. Did it blink though? I’d have to say yes in the most unusual way. Cg didn’t question Cg didn’t giggle under his breath (although I think he does over some of the antics I pull). Cg didn’t go ‘non sequitor’ or ‘Ple...
