A frog?

青蛙？

A toad?

蟾蜍？

Or your mama?

還是你媽媽？

For decades, popular culture has been awash with depictions of funny robots.

幾十年來，大眾文化中充斥著對有趣機器人的描述。

Don't you call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease!

別叫我沒頭腦的哲學家，你這個超重的油球！

And witty computer counterparts.

還有機智的電腦對手。

Everybody good?

大家都好嗎？

Plenty of slaves for my robot colony?

我的機器人殖民地有足夠的奴隸嗎？

Give him a humour setting!

給他一個幽默的設置！

But in a real-world context, can AI-created comedy actually be funnier than a real person?

但在現實世界中，人工智能創作的喜劇真的能比真人更有趣嗎？

Or are humour and wit inextricably human qualities? To put this to the test, we're asking a comedian to deliver a stand-up routine written by generative AI.

或者說，幽默和機智是人類不可分割的特質嗎？ 為了驗證這一點，我們請一位喜劇演員表演一段由生成式人工智能編寫的單口相聲。

Why don't scientists trust atoms?

科學家為什麼不相信原子？

Because they make up everything.

因為一切都是他們編造出來的。

To begin to understand the present-day capabilities of AI, I sit down with ethics fellow and researcher Marie Aitken from the Alan Turing Institute, who also doubles in stand-up herself.

為了開始瞭解當今人工智能的能力，我與來自艾倫-圖靈研究所的倫理學研究員瑪麗-艾特肯（Marie Aitken）坐在了一起。

Something like ChatGPT is only going to be replicating what others have said.

像 ChatGPT 這樣的東西只會重複別人說過的話。

It's not intelligent, it's just mimicking language.

它沒有智慧，只是在模仿語言。

It's never created something new.

它從未創造出新的東西。

That's what comedy is always about, kind of pushing those boundaries.

這就是喜劇的魅力所在，不斷挑戰極限。

There are some things that can't be replicated by AI.

有些東西是人工智能無法複製的。

The understanding of context, the understanding of emotions, the understanding of the meaning of words.

對語境的理解、對情感的理解、對詞語含義的理解。

I don't think you can really be intentionally funny without understanding what it is that is funny. Do you have any tips or any hacks to get the very best out of a generative AI model?

我認為，如果不瞭解什麼是有趣，就無法真正做到有意搞笑。你有什麼訣竅或祕訣可以讓生成式人工智能模型發揮到極致嗎？

Don't take what it gives you the first time as the output.

不要把它第一次給你的結果當作輸出結果。

This needs to be a back and forth.

這需要有來有往。

Experiment with asking it to create that in a different style or word it in a different way.

嘗試要求它以不同的風格或措辭來創作。

To give us the very best shot at creating a funny comedy routine for stand-up, I solicit the help of comedian Karen Hobbs, who voted one of the funniest comedians at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

為了讓我們以最好的方式創作出單口相聲的搞笑段子，我請來了喜劇演員凱倫-霍布斯（Karen Hobbs）幫忙，她曾被評為愛丁堡藝穗節最有趣的喜劇演員之一。

What she did, you know, I said, do you like your job?

我問她，你喜歡你的工作嗎？

And she said, oh, you win some, you lose some.

她說，哦，有得有失。

So I'm thinking, oh, she's like a banker or a trader.

所以我在想，哦，她像是個銀行家或交易員。

No, A&E doctor. With Karen's help, we'll craft a script written by an AI chatbot that she'll deliver to Comedy Night in a week's time.

不，是急診室醫生。 在凱倫的幫助下，我們將製作一個由人工智能哈拉機器人編寫的劇本，她將在一週後的喜劇之夜上表演。

What is the secret recipe for making insanely funny comedy?

製作令人捧腹的喜劇的祕訣是什麼？

For me, quite self-deprecating humour.

對我來說，這是一種自嘲式的幽默。

OK, let's give it a go.

好吧，讓我們試一試。

Just as Murray had predicted, the chatbot's initial responses felt generic.

正如默裡所預料的那樣，哈拉機器人最初的回覆感覺很一般。

It feels very much like somebody's read a book on how to do a joke.

感覺就像是有人讀了一本關於如何開玩笑的書。

As a model which is trained to scrape existing data off the internet, the AI chatbot's responses reveal some pretty entrenched and very outdated gender stereotypes.

作為一個通過從互聯網上搜刮現有數據而訓練出來的模型，人工智能哈拉機器人的回答揭示了一些根深蒂固、非常過時的性別刻板印象。

Hormones are like, let's make her want pickles and ice cream at 3am and see what happens.

荷爾蒙就像，讓她凌晨三點想吃泡菜和冰淇淋，看看會發生什麼。

Spoiler alert, what happens is a lot of regret. After multiple attempts and re-edits, it's time for Karen to deliver her set in front of a live audience.

劇透一下，發生的事情讓人後悔莫及。 經過多次嘗試和重新剪輯，凱倫該在現場觀眾面前表演了。

Are you ready for this wild experiment?

你準備好接受這個瘋狂的實驗了嗎？

You ready?

準備好了嗎？

Maybe the audience will laugh, you know, and if they do laugh, I'll say that bit was mine.

也許觀眾會笑，你知道，如果他們真的笑了，我會說那是我的功勞。

And I'll lie because ChatGPT isn't here to defend itself.

我會撒謊，因為 ChatGPT 不是來為自己辯護的。

My social life?

我的社交生活？

Oh, is booming.

哦，是蓬勃發展。

If by booming you mean my best friend is a potted plant named Wilson.

如果你說的轟轟烈烈是指我最好的朋友是一盆名叫威爾遜的盆栽。

I haven't found that AI has made me think I'm going to be any less successful.

我沒有發現人工智能會讓我覺得自己的成功率降低。

I once gave my wife a glue stick instead of lipstick.

有一次，我用膠棒代替口紅送給妻子。

She still isn't talking to me. It's clear from our test that generative AI models can mimic comedy but don't yet understand the nuances of humour and human experience enough to be truly funny.

她還是不跟我說話。 從我們的測試中可以清楚地看出，生成式人工智能模型可以模仿喜劇，但對幽默的細微差別和人類經驗的理解還不足以做到真正的搞笑。

To get anything that might vaguely relate to me, a female, you have to specifically say from the perspective of a female comedian because its standard response is very male-centric.

要想得到任何可能與我--一位女性--有關的資訊，你必須特別說明是從女性喜劇演員的角度出發，因為它的標準反應是非常以男性為中心的。

Dating is like shopping.

約會就像購物。

You go out looking for what you want and end up with something you don't need.

你去尋找你想要的東西，結果卻得到了你不需要的東西。

I've literally never felt more stupid in my whole life.

我這輩子都沒覺得自己這麼蠢過。

I felt sick, I was shaking, and it reminded me of when I first started comedy and nobody laughed at me.

我感到噁心，渾身發抖，這讓我想起了我剛開始演喜劇時，沒有人嘲笑我。