AI Doesn’t Get My Jokes

Procrastination.

We all do it, right?

That’s when you should be working, but instead, you do something else.

Lately, I’ve started procrastinating by talking to AI.

Last Thursday, I was about to start writing, when all of a sudden…

I had to know how Robert Redford died!

Was it cancer? A tumor? A shark attack?

I had to know immediately.

This information could not wait another second.

So I asked ChatGPT.

Here’s the answer I got:

Robert Redford died in his sleep on September 16, 2025, at his home in Sundance, Utah, surrounded by loved ones.

No specific cause of death has been publicly disclosed.

I didn’t think that was a very satisfying answer.

Nor was I ready to stop procrastinating.

So I decided to have some fun with a follow-up question.

“How could he sleep surrounded by people? That would keep me awake.”

ChatGPT answered, “‘Surrounded by loved ones’ means his family and close friends were present in the home or nearby during his final hours, not literally all around his bed at the moment of death.”

It didn’t get my joke.

And then, to make things worse, it offered to give me an English lesson!

“Would you like me to teach you some more expressions commonly found in obituaries?”

I’m pretty sure it knows I’m an English teacher.

And this thing is supposed to take over the world?

I’m not worried.

But I did get back to work.