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GPT-3 is very capable of humor, even better than humans are. It's not really that it finds it funny, but more that it's mimicking a conversational pattern. Sarcasm, silliness, snarkiness, it's all there. Gopher seems to also be trained on books and the internet, so it wouldn't be so surprising.

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While I want to believe this is true, I think the above response was more a lack of Gopher's ability to analyze mathematical equations properly than an attempt to display a sense of humour. Many NLP approaches work by creating word embeddings, which don't always help the model to understand "first-order logic" language mixed with spoken language.

Though who knows, maybe it does have a sense of humour.

In full context, it's a conversation. "What does this mean, and what does that mean, what is also related to that?" If you ask a human impressively difficult questions then an absurdly trivial one, a human will probably respond with sarcasm. I'd expect Gopher to as well. It might get the answer right if you were asking it a series of arithmetic questions.

According to the link, Gopher is far better at math than GPT-3, and GPT-3 can solve "15 x 7", so I'd assume that Gopher would be able to as well.

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