Is a taste for humor the reason that humans originally developed such large brains? Is humor a key component in achieving AGI?

The humor vs IQ connection is undeniable, one of the strongest-replicated connections in all of social science.

What’s less clear is which drove which. Did bigger brains drive a taste for humor, or was it a taste for humor that drove bigger brains?

Mounting evidence points to the latter, since environmental pressures don’t appear to have been strong enough to explain such costly, slow to develop feature as the oversized human brain.

So, are humans another peacock of the animal kingdom, but instead of runaway selection for bigger shinier feathers, instead humans experienced runaway selection for bigger brains?

Is the skill in creating and understanding humor, something GPT-3 and GPT-4 are shockingly bad at, the final step on the road to achieving AGI?

Will meme writer be the last remaining job after AI takes over all the others?

Is humor AI’s final frontier?