![]() ![]() Interesting that he is the only turtle there. In front of it, a turtle is talking to a mouse who is holding a clipboard inįront of the empty hamster wheel. Here it is.ĬOMEDIAN: Okay, in this cartoon, there are three mice running in hamster wheels. Interviewer: Let's move on to a new cartoon. Interviewer: That's funny! Insinuating that there is a requirement to go down a particular hole How about another one?ĬOMEDIAN: Sure: "Is the fire in Times Square or Columbus Circle?" Interviewer: That's funny! Insinuating that the pizza delivery guy gets the square hole because ![]() One of the firemen seems to beĬOMEDIAN: How about this: "Since when did the pizza delivery guy get his own pole?" Go down into is different: one is square and one is a circle. Looking at the poles they slide down to get to the first floor. I was wondering if youĬOMEDIAN: Okay, so in this cartoon, it looks like we're in a fire station. Interviewer: I have a few New Yorker cartoons here that need a caption. Know which character in the cartoon is speaking and delivering the line. Work hard to ensure that your caption makes sense of the cartoon, eitherīy reconciling two disparate elements or by providing a backstory, and by making sure that you In many unsuccessful captions, the word that should appear at the very end getsīuried in the middle. End with the punch line, a closing word or phrase that surprises the reader and gives theĬartoon meaning. Although some great captions are long brevity really is the soul of wit.Ģ. Interviewer: What would you say is the secret to a good New Yorker caption?ĬOMEDIAN: 1. See the GPT-3 prompt Today, we are excited to invite COMEDIAN to the stage. Sense-his comedy relies on deadpan one-liners), so we called this experiment The Demetri Martin. Results were slightly better for Demetri Martin in James’ own blind voting (which makes With Seinfeld, John Swartzwelder, Dave Chapelle, "a Simpsons Writer," Larry Wood, and Demetri GPT-3 is clever enough to generate text in the style of a comedian, and he tested this process James fed a generic version of this script into the GPT-3 text prompt for various comedians. Their thought process while coming up with caption ideas for the New Yorker cartoon caption contest. Working at their desk, in the middle of the sidewalk, which is blocking the people walking.Ĭontributor and AI-tinkerer James Yu helped out on The pizza delivery guy get his own pole?"Ĭartoon description: People are walking on aīusy sidewalk in front of apartments. One has a circular opening, one has a square opening. He has an audience of peopleĬartoon caption: "See? And you said you couldn'tĬartoon description: Two firemen are deciding which pole to go down. Is a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat on his balcony. Everyone is inside theirĬartoon caption: "I want one that snows." See the GPT-3 prompt Translate the given cartoon description into a funny caption for a New Yorker cartoon:Ĭartoon description: People are walking on the sidewalk. We gave the model aįew examples to nudge it in the right direction, called The Few Shot. ![]() We worried that GPT-3 might just be writing captions and not funny captions. Our captions, ranked by votes from the New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest Survey We submitted computer-generated captions for 10 different contests. The magazineĪnd its editors then choose the finalists from the ranked list. That prompts people with a caption and asks whether it is funny. We could also track how our captions ranked among the New Yorker’s thousands of entries for each It's just the magnetism of my personality.” GPT-3 then generates the following caption: Sweeping the floor around the couch, looking for metal. “A couple are sitting on a couch and surrounded by five guys who have metal detectors who are Enter some text and GPT-3 generates a response, wielding a language model that’s trained on THE ENTIRE INTERNET (if you’re curious about how predictive language models work, check out our interactive explanation here). The “playground” mode is just a text box. GPT-3 is an open-to-the-public tool (just create an account here). ![]()
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