Witscript 2: A System for Generating Improvised Jokes Without Wordplay

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A previous paper presented Witscript, a system for generating conversational jokes that rely on wordplay.

• This paper extends that work by presenting Witscript 2, which uses a large language model to generate conversational jokes that rely on common sense instead of wordplay.
• Like Witscript, Witscript 2 is based on joke-writing algorithms created by an expert comedy writer.
• Human evaluators judged Witscript 2's responses to input sentences to be jokes 46% of the time, compared to 70% of the time for human-written responses.