{"id":225858,"date":"2025-11-25T13:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/why-the-long-interface-ai-systems-dont-get-the-joke-research-reveals"},"modified":"2025-11-25T13:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:08:56","slug":"why-the-long-interface-ai-systems-dont-get-the-joke-research-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/why-the-long-interface-ai-systems-dont-get-the-joke-research-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Why the long interface? AI systems don\u2019t \u2018get\u2019 the joke, research reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-the-long-interface-ai-systems-dont-get-the-joke-research-reveals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems, like ChatGPT and Gemini, simulate understanding of comedy wordplay, but never really \u201cget the joke,\u201d a new study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers wanted to find out whether large language models (LLMs) can understand puns\u2014also known as paronomasia\u2014wordplay that relies on double meanings or sound-alike words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.<\/p>\n<p>While earlier studies suggest LLMs could process this type of humor in a similar way to humans, the team from Cardiff University and Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venice found AI systems mostly memorize familiar joke structures rather than actually understand them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems, like ChatGPT and Gemini, simulate understanding of comedy wordplay, but never really \u201cget the joke,\u201d a new study suggests. Researchers wanted to find out whether large language models (LLMs) can understand puns\u2014also known as paronomasia\u2014wordplay that relies on double meanings or sound-alike words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}