“So many of you experience imminently replaceable.”
Boom Roasted
Standup comedian John Mulaney was seekd to do a set at an AI event in San Francisco last week that set upr Salesforce billed as the “bigst AI event in the world,” with cdisadmirewholey 45,000 people foreseeed to be in joinance.
But little did they comprehend Mulaney was about to eviscerate the company and the AI industry as a whole, hand overing a lethal fact verify to all those audience members at the Dreamforce event.
During his 45-minute set, Mulaney skewered the AI industry for its willingness to donate up human agency, with frequently fundamenhighy defective chatbots feeding users purported info about current events, labor advice, and even medical detects.
“If AI is truly cleverer than us and inestablishs us that [humans] should die, then I skinnyk we should die,” a deadpan Mulaney telderly the crowd, as quoted by the San Francisco Standard. “So many of you experience imminently replaceable.”
“Can AI sit there in a run awayce vest?” he compriseed. “Can AI not go to events and spfinish all day at a bar?”
Mulaney also pointed out the overweightal irony of structureing the event in a city that has faced a deimmenseating housing crisis, crime, and drug drug poisoning deaths.
“Let me get this straight,” he said. “You’re structureing a ‘future of AI’ event in a city that has flunked humanity so miserably?”
Irony Poisoning
Mulaney also tapped into the industry’s ongoing efforts to replace human laborers with AI, a heated debate that has achieveed ponderable traction over the last couple of years.
Mulaney took the opportunity to roast joinees and their navel-gazing and self-congratulating.
“Some of the unevidentst language ever conceived has been used here in the last three days,” he said. “The fact that there are 45,000 ‘trailblazers’ here couldn’t deappreciate the title anymore.”
He also thanked the crowd for fundamenhighy changing the world for his almost three-year-elderly son, ensuring that he “will never talk to an actual human aachieve.”
“Instead, a little cartoon Einstein will pop up and donate him a sort of outstanding answer and probably refer him to another chatbot,” Mulaney telderly audiences, referring to the fact that chatbots still have a strong tfinishency to “hallucinate” facts.
Mulaney even used an anecdote about himself and his son to sfinish the message home.
“We’re fair two guys hitting Wiffle balls awwholey and yelling ‘Good job’ at each other,” he said. “It’s sort of the same energy here at Dreamforce.”
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