The ability to be funny is not an advanced cognitive function that sits on top of the capacity for logic and reason. Humor is more primitive, more fundamental. It is accidental unearthing of buried possibility. If cheaper AIs can crack better jokes than the expensive ones, that suggests that humor is more of an instinct than an intellectual achievement.
As AIs are trained to be more thoughtful, more careful, more precise, more like the best human minds, they may become less human-like. The basic pattern recognition ability necessary for joking may get tripped up in reasoning.
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