ChatGPT might kill us all ... with dad jokes

Jon the Robot uses artificial intelligence to determine where to jump next in his human-written script. Jon can tell a joke has fallen flat, Fitter says, and then make a quip on the joke's failure, attempting to repair the interaction. "It might be poking fun at the audience, trying to guess why they didn't like the joke," Fitter says. The majority of the time, when the robot tried to rescue the joke, it improved the audience's reaction, a result Fitter finds "promising."