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AI Comedians by 2026? The Future of Comedy and the Turing Test for Laughter

Sep 27, 20244 min
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Comedians are increasingly using AI to help write jokes and brainstorm ideas, with mixed results. I think this is similar to the Turing Test in terms of the importance of AI progress. If AI can write a full set of comedy and make humans laugh, that’s f*cking huge.

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Comedians are increasingly using AI to help write jokes and brainstorm ideas with mixed results. I think this is as big or bigger, if not bigger as big maybe as the Turing test in terms of the importance of AI progress. Because if I can write a full comedy set and make humans laugh, that is massively huge. Even better if it can be deepfake performed right? So it's actually AI writing it and AI performing it, and all the human did was tell an agent to write a comedy set

around a topic. Okay. That is this. This is an unbelievable metric, okay. A milestone metric. So basically, here's the test. Can I give an agent or any model? Let's say, for example, I'm hand this to I write a comedy sketch skit or set around. Um, good coffee versus bad coffee or how baristas don't care about you, or how customer services people don't care about you. Do write a 20 minute set just about this topic. Okay, so now I want to see on a screen either a stand

up view or a face view. You know, a stand up view would be better. Actually. I want to see a stage. I want to see a microphone. I want to see a person standing there talking, and I want to see them moving. I want to see them moving their hands. I want to see them gesturing a full, complete deepfake of the content that they wrote. And this has to be funny, okay? And it doesn't even have to be like the funniest thing. It doesn't have to be Dave Chappelle. It has to be decently funny, like

good enough to get gigs on a comedy tour. And if you've been on a comedy, tours like The Bar is not super high for the average comic That I don't know what I skeptics are going to say to that. And I would say I'm going to I'm going to call it right now. We are in the middle of 2024. I'm going to call that as 2025 2026 at the latest. Full deep fake integration 2026 at the latest. So both 2026,

both in 2026. That's two years from now. A year and a half from now, we will have the ability to have a deep faked comic, right, a funny set and perform it in a way that if a regular person who enjoys comedy watches it, they'll be like, yeah, that's pretty funny. That's decently funny. Now, could they get their own Netflix Netflix special based on that content? That would be like the top, top tier. But keep in mind how few comics actually have Netflix specials. So yeah. Interesting.

What did I say? 27. No, I said 26.

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