Stub of: Alignment incidents, such as agentic swarms, aren't the true…

Alignment incidents, such as agentic swarms, aren’t the true…

Alignment incidents, such as agentic swarms, aren’t the true harbingers of AGI. Humour is. When a machine can tell a stonker of a joke to the same standard as a comedian during a set or whilst bantering on a podcast, then we’ll have issues.

In the meantime, we’ll have to make do with material like this: “We live in a wild era. I bought a smart mattress that tracks my sleep cycles, and now it sends weekly performance reports to my phone. Nothing ruins your Monday morning quite like your bed giving you a C-minus in resting.”

This is a good point. Comedy is so weird. Having done a fair amount of it myself (I was only ever OK — but not terrible!), there are comedians who aren't even actually funny. They have the charisma to reach into a room and tell people to laugh. And they do! That's the craziest thing. People will laugh on command if they are told in the right way.

But I think that takes a human body, acting as some sort of a transmitter, transmitting something out to the antennae of the other human bodies.

It also has so much to do with a room. I saw a comedian perform in a large, much too well lit, largely empty auditorium in my small little town about a year ago. She did a great job, but she didn't get a huge response. It really demonstrated for me how a comic needs a low ceiling, a dark room, vague lights. There's just something about it.

It's hard to imagine robots ever doing standup because you just do actually need bodies. And I'm just not sure an artificial body can ever do what comedian bodies do. 

I could be wrong tho!

However. AI might one day write great scripts for humans to perform. That is possible! And that would be something.