Five Jokes: 5-21-2024
Target Is Cutting Prices, A.I. Is Used To Speak Whale, McDonald's Mysterious "Grandma McFlurry," Microsoft's A.I. Antics, and Rudy Giuliani's Coffee
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Target plans to cut prices on thousands of consumer basics this summer. Which sounds genuinely kind until you realize inflation was getting so high that diapers were expiring anyway. Speaking to the press on the matter, a panicked Target CEO Brian Cornell exclaimed, “How else are we gonna get rid of all this milk?!”
Sperm whale families talk a lot, and researchers are trying to decode what they're saying with A.I. The first results are fascinating:
McDonald’s has stayed unusually quiet about the new Grandma McFlurry Flavor, simply stating that it is made with “delicious syrup and chopped candy pieces” — and that it’s “not-NOT a McGriddle tossed into a blender with a few M&Ms.”
Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you’re doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next. The incredible technology was developed by feeding the screenplay for The Legend of Bagger Vance screenplay into its algorithm.
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Rudy Giuliani is selling his own brand of coffee —
— flavors come Bold, Decaf, Morning, and I Married My Cousin.
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THIS is why Rudy gets along with Trump- they both know how to sell crap!