“Witscript 3: A Hybrid AI System for Improvising Jokes in a Conversation”, Joe Toplyn2023-01-06 (NN sampling, GPT fiction, humor)⁠:

Previous papers presented Witscript & Witscript 2, AI systems for improvising jokes in a conversation. Witscript generates jokes that rely on wordplay, whereas the jokes generated by Witscript 2 rely on common sense.

This paper extends that earlier work by presenting Witscript 3, which generates joke candidates using 3 joke production mechanisms and then selects the best candidate to output. Like Witscript & Witscript 2, Witscript 3 is based on humor algorithms created by an expert comedy writer.

Human evaluators judged Witscript 3’s responses to input sentences to be jokes 44% of the time.

This is evidence that Witscript 3 represents another step toward giving a chatbot a human-like sense of humor.