Name: Is AI Ready For Improv Comedy?
Uploaded: 2020-03-22T19:21:46.000Z
Duration: 5 min 13 s
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And it's home to many an eccentric and clever inventor.

Of course not, but that shouldn't keep us from chatting.

an AI researcher who comes with a sidekick.

Tell me about this guy a little bit, or is this it?

On Blueberry, I've deployed the improv system.

So there's an artificial improv system running

I keep thinking there's, like, a ventriloquist

That's a really good way to put it, yeah.

so that you could perform in front of these people.

So they do not know what I am going to say?

I don't know what you're going to say either!

Step one: he feeds Blueberry the dialogue

from a bunch of movies, 102,000 movies to be exact.

All the movies, every movie for 100 years.

And that's just so it can learn language,

see how somebody responds to somebody else.

That's exactly right, it builds kind of a language model.

and punishing it when it spits out gibberish.

Time to put this wannabe Kid in the Hall to the test.

Grab your gloves and grab your baseball bats,

Okay, okay. Well, why aren't you ready for the match?

Okay, come on Franklin, you know how I feel about you,

but you've gotta keep your head in the game right now.

Oh Jesus, put down the bat, Franklin! What are you doing?

Obviously, some of the responses are a little bit weird,

and then it's like, it's extra hilarious,

But Kory has a higher purpose: making AI relatable.

we're saying don't be afraid of this tech,

look at how cute it is, look at how kind of naive it is.

Then you make it cute and then people start to accept it?

I mean, I don't think that will happen in my time.