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Ep. 765: David Weinberger Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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The Future of Humor

Are we going to be at a point in the not too distant future where the AI can take some basic notions and produce something better than us humans? In some cases, I think it's arguably already happening. There's AI-composed music that, at least to my ears, is quite simple. But there are other areas where, for example, joke writing. So far, AI has produced some funny, funny stuff, but generally it's funny because you know it's AI and you see how bad it is. That's a really sensitive, context-based thing, humor. Right now, AI is not writing jokes that are actually funny, not just funny because they're so wrong

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