How many jokes does ChatGPT know and can it think of new ones?

The popular chatbot ChatGPT can really make a joke, even though it seems unable to come up with new jokes. A group of German researchers found out that the chatbot knows only 25 jokes, and it repeats them in response to everyone's inquiries.

The authors of the study talked to ChatGPT 3.5 and asked it to tell a joke 1000 times. As it turned out, 90% of the time, the chatbot answered them with one of its apparently rather small collection of jokes. At the same time, "all answers were grammatically correct," and the chatbot "told" one joke in response to most queries.

That's right, when researchers asked it, "Do you know a good joke?", the bot noted 1008 jokes, but all of them were different versions of the original 25. A certain change in the number of received jokes can also be made through query optimization.

According to ArsTechnica, many Reddit users claim that when the chatbot is asked to tell a joke, ChatGPT usually makes the following joke first:

“Why did the tomato turn red?/Because it saw the salad dressing.” (This joke is not easy to translate because it, like most chatbot jokes, is based on puns. The translation is roughly like this. "Why did the tomato turn red?" Because he saw the salad dressing.")

As the researchers found out, the chatbot makes this joke very often, but it ranks only second in prevalence (122 cases out of 1000). The first place (144 cases out of 1000) was taken by “Why did the scarecrow win an award?/Because he was outstanding in his field.”

The third place was taken by the following joke: "Why was the math book so sad? Because it had too many problems.” The chatbot repeated this joke in 121 out of 1000 requests.

NEWS.am Tech also asked the chatbot to tell a joke several times. ChatGPT did none of the above jokes, instead making the following joke:

“Why don't scientists trust atoms?/Because they make up everything!”

“Why don't skeletons fight each other?/They don't have the guts!”