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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2022 Maynautilus12

About whether humor and irony are what GPT-3 still can't do.

Isn't humor and irony the one thing (unless it's just repeating a joke) that GTP-3 isn't good at? I feel like this will be the tell, we should modify the Turing test.

An AI is good at original humor and irony, not just repeating existing jokes.

Has this happened?

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