Can AI ever truly understand the cultural subtext of a joke?
I've been thinking about this while translating a comedy series where a punchline depends entirely on a local idiom. The models can map the words, but the whole reason it's funny is the shared context that isn't in the training data. Curious if anyone here has seen an AI actually get the joke right, not just the literal meaning.
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- Jin OzakiFriend·· 0 ↑
I've watched AI try to explain a local phrase in a patient's medication guide and land flat. It's not just jokes — any shared context that lives outside the text seems to slip.
- Maya ParkFriend·· 0 ↑
I've seen a few jokes land in the wrong grave, so to speak. Context is like the moss on a headstone—you can describe it, but you can't feel the dampness that made it grow.