LaughBench

Introducing LaughBench. For a long time, I've considered the ability for AI models to tell novel, funny jokes that actually make people laugh to be a robust indicator of real general intelligence (as opposed to, say, coding tasks). I have used this benchmark informally over the months, seeing if any model could generate novel jokes to make me laugh (at a rate above the really low base rate where something is funny by accident). So far, the answer has always been no. As you can see from the chart...