Comment by consumer451
10 days ago
"AI won't replace you, but someone who knows how to use AI will replace you" appears to be too short a phrase.
There is no better recent example than AI comedy made by a professional comedian [0]
Of course, this makes sense once you think about it for a second. Even AGI, without a BCI, could not read your mind to understand what you want. Of course, the people who have been communicating these ideas with other humans up to this point, are the best at doing that.
[0] old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1oqnwvt/ai_comedy_made_by_a_professional_comedian/
> There is no better recent example than AI comedy made by a professional comedian
To clarify, the “comedy” part of this “AI comedy” was written entirely by a human with no assistance from a language model.
> For anyone interested in my process. I wrote every joke myself, then use Sora 2 to animate them.
Exactly.
Apologies if I wrote my original comment poorly, but that was I was trying to communicate.
Not only was this person able to write good comedy, but they knew what tools were available and how to use them.
I previously wrote:
> "AI won't replace you, but someone who knows how to use AI will replace you." ...
The missing part is "But a person who was excellent at their pre-AI job, will replace ten of the people down the chain."
The possible analog that just popped into my head is the nearly always missed part of the quote "the customer is always right" ... "in matters of taste."
> a person who was excellent at their pre-AI job, will replace ten of the people down the chain
I think comedy is a great example of how this is not the general case.
In this instance, the video you posted was the result when a comic used a tool to make a non-living thing say their jokes.
That’s not new, that’s a prop. It’s ventriloquism. People have been doing that gag since the first crude marionette was whittled.
The existence of prop comics isn’t an indicator that that’s the pinnacle of comedy (or even particularly good). If Mitch Hedburg had Jeff Dunham’s puppets it probably would’ve been… fine, but if Jeff Dunham woke up tomorrow with Hedburg’s ability to write and deliver jokes his life and career would be dramatically changed forever.
Better dummies will benefit some ventriloquists but there’s no reason to think that this is the moment that the dummies get so good that everyone will stop watching humans and start watching ventriloquists (which is what would have to happen for one e-ventriloquist putting 10 comedians out of a job to be a regular thing)
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