WEBVTT - AI Comedians by 2026? The Future of Comedy and the Turing Test for Laughter 0:00:22.593 --> 0:00:25.713 Comedians are increasingly using AI to help write jokes and 0:00:25.713 --> 0:00:30.633 brainstorm ideas with mixed results. I think this is as 0:00:30.633 --> 0:00:35.433 big or bigger, if not bigger as big maybe as 0:00:35.433 --> 0:00:38.313 the Turing test in terms of the importance of AI progress. 0:00:38.313 --> 0:00:43.113 Because if I can write a full comedy set and 0:00:43.113 --> 0:00:49.203 make humans laugh, that is massively huge. Even better if 0:00:49.203 --> 0:00:54.153 it can be deepfake performed right? So it's actually AI 0:00:54.183 --> 0:00:58.683 writing it and AI performing it, and all the human 0:00:58.683 --> 0:01:04.773 did was tell an agent to write a comedy set 0:01:04.833 --> 0:01:09.573 around a topic. Okay. That is this. This is an 0:01:09.573 --> 0:01:15.903 unbelievable metric, okay. A milestone metric. So basically, here's the test. 0:01:15.933 --> 0:01:19.533 Can I give an agent or any model? Let's say, 0:01:19.533 --> 0:01:24.153 for example, I'm hand this to I write a comedy 0:01:24.153 --> 0:01:32.583 sketch skit or set around. Um, good coffee versus bad 0:01:32.583 --> 0:01:37.683 coffee or how baristas don't care about you, or how 0:01:37.683 --> 0:01:41.643 customer services people don't care about you. Do write a 0:01:41.643 --> 0:01:46.743 20 minute set just about this topic. Okay, so now 0:01:46.743 --> 0:01:50.643 I want to see on a screen either a stand 0:01:50.673 --> 0:01:54.303 up view or a face view. You know, a stand 0:01:54.333 --> 0:01:55.983 up view would be better. Actually. I want to see 0:01:55.983 --> 0:01:57.843 a stage. I want to see a microphone. I want 0:01:57.873 --> 0:02:00.933 to see a person standing there talking, and I want 0:02:00.963 --> 0:02:02.823 to see them moving. I want to see them moving 0:02:02.823 --> 0:02:06.303 their hands. I want to see them gesturing a full, 0:02:06.303 --> 0:02:11.733 complete deepfake of the content that they wrote. And this 0:02:11.733 --> 0:02:14.493 has to be funny, okay? And it doesn't even have 0:02:14.493 --> 0:02:16.503 to be like the funniest thing. It doesn't have to 0:02:16.503 --> 0:02:21.693 be Dave Chappelle. It has to be decently funny, like 0:02:21.693 --> 0:02:26.733 good enough to get gigs on a comedy tour. And 0:02:26.733 --> 0:02:28.923 if you've been on a comedy, tours like The Bar 0:02:28.923 --> 0:02:35.083 is not super high for the average comic That I 0:02:35.083 --> 0:02:37.723 don't know what I skeptics are going to say to that. 0:02:37.963 --> 0:02:40.153 And I would say I'm going to I'm going to 0:02:40.153 --> 0:02:43.753 call it right now. We are in the middle of 2024. 0:02:43.783 --> 0:02:50.773 I'm going to call that as 2025 2026 at the latest. 0:02:50.803 --> 0:02:58.063 Full deep fake integration 2026 at the latest. So both 2026, 0:02:58.453 --> 0:03:01.453 both in 2026. That's two years from now. A year 0:03:01.453 --> 0:03:04.513 and a half from now, we will have the ability 0:03:04.513 --> 0:03:08.713 to have a deep faked comic, right, a funny set 0:03:08.713 --> 0:03:12.283 and perform it in a way that if a regular 0:03:12.283 --> 0:03:15.043 person who enjoys comedy watches it, they'll be like, yeah, 0:03:15.043 --> 0:03:20.833 that's pretty funny. That's decently funny. Now, could they get 0:03:20.833 --> 0:03:25.003 their own Netflix Netflix special based on that content? That 0:03:25.003 --> 0:03:27.823 would be like the top, top tier. But keep in 0:03:27.823 --> 0:03:34.933 mind how few comics actually have Netflix specials. So yeah. Interesting. 0:03:34.933 --> 0:03:39.043 What did I say? 27. No, I said 26.