Why did the statistician go back to school? To get his degree in regression! (Courtesy of GPT-3 when prompted to make a joke involving the dual meaning of regression.)

May 21, 2022 · 7:07 PM UTC

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I bet less than 20% of human test subjects could come up with a better one. So it's a top-quintile comedy writer.
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It writes better jokes then I do
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Solid chuckle achieved.
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It is a pretty good joke, to be fair.
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It’s official, AI has surpassed me in art and joke writing
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So over a period of time all statisticians just end up being average statisticians?
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Thats really a great one. Congrats gpt3
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To ring the bell curve.
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There is a Tamil language phrase more appropriate than the English version (Adding insult to injury) "Piercing a burn with a lance". Fits like a glove in this context. When GPT is trained on Tamil language it will be more compact and on point.
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Many people I know without a stats background working with ML say they want to one day take a break go somewhere calm and learn all statistics, calculus once again.
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