• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
    28·
    16 days ago

    That seems like an inherently false statement. If it was sarcastic, it would be false because it actually is going great. If it’s not sarcastic, than the project is not actually going great.

    • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.worldOP
      291·
      16 days ago

      If it’s sarcastic, it actually worked and the inventor might be a genius, but maybe the AI doesn’t like him and wants to make fun of him anyway.

      • lad@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        16 days ago

        Also, it can be sarcastic only in one of the two statements, so the project is a success but the guy is far from being a genius

    • flerp@lemm.ee
      4·
      16 days ago

      The project could not be going great but also the AI is just incorrect about the status of the project rather than being sarcastic

  • halvar@lemm.ee
    27·
    16 days ago

    This is a pradox though. If the scientist succeeded then the machine isn’t really using sarcasm and if they haven’t then it’s lying.

    • jaybone@lemmy.world
      51·
      16 days ago

      This comic really only needs the first two panels. The third panel though suggests that the scientists themselves don’t know what sarcasm is. Which would make it difficult for them to design something to use it.

      • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
        61·
        16 days ago

        It only needed the first two panels. In the US, it needed the first two panels and an /s

  • dnick@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    16 days ago

    No, sarcasm is really hard to do, I’m sure only humans can possibly understand the nuances of language like that.

  • timkenhan@sopuli.xyz
    13·
    16 days ago

    This reminds me of that time I accidentally roasted my college instructor in front of the class.

    It was some kind of logic class for computer science. We were going thru a topic of “statement”, which is “something that has a truth value”.

    I asked, “what about sarcasm?”

    He answered, “sarcasm also has truth value in it, so it’s also a statement”.

    Then he told me to give an example, to which I instictively gave without much thought: “this class is great!”

    Had the whole class laughing while he frowned.

    It was the very first day of him teaching.