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Markov chains are funnier than LLMs


Predictability machines and personality

One of these is the result of a Markov chain trained on the dataset of the King James Bible and a Computer Science textbook. As an example, the word coupling “banana, apple, orange, vehicular manslaughter” sets up a pattern of single-word fruit and violates the expectation with a crime. As a monolingual American, I still managed to make (successful) jokes in a very non-english environment by using the word “no” in ways that were culturally unexpected.

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