I think if what the author said was true, you’d be able to improve joke-writing ability by increasing temperature (i.e., allowing more unexpected tokens). I doubt this actually works.

As an aside, I just asked gpt5-thinking to write some jokes on a specific niche topic, and I’d say it was batting maybe 20% of them being moderately funny? Probably better than I’d get out of a room of human beings. So much like with code, LLMs aren’t at the level of a senior developer or expert comedian, but are around the level of a junior dev or an amateur at standup night.

> I think if what the author said was true, you’d be able to improve joke-writing ability by increasing temperature (i.e., allowing more unexpected tokens). I doubt this actually works.

I would think it would help tbh. Seems worth a try at least.