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As another data point as we chart our path to the singularity, I entered the same prompt into the API playground and got this response:

> A Jerry Seinfeld routine about cats.

> Why do cats always land on their feet? I've never seen a cat land on its feet. They don't; they land on you.

> I was at my friend's house the other day, and his cat was walking across the room. And I said to him, "How does that cat always land on its feet?" And he said, "Well, it's because they're lighter than air."

> And I said, "No, it's because they've got nine lives."

> And he said, "No, it's because they're lighter than air."

> And I said, "No, it's because they've got nine lives."

> And he said, "No, it's because they're lighter than air."

> And I said, "No, it's because they've got nine lives."

And then it just repeated those last two lines until my browser crashed. It cost me about a quarter.

Copilot gives me these kinds of two-line loops a lot. This is probably what AI will sit around doing until the sun flames out, after it's killed all of us off.
GPT 3 really reminds me of the kind of fluent, but ultimately incoherent, speech someone with Wernicke's aphasia produces. It's like we've done a really good at artificially building the language part of the brain isolated from all the other parts
I still imagine Seinfeld doing this bit with an increasing intensity and widened eyes as it progresses to infinity.
I'm looking forward to an always-on pirate livestream of Crow T. Robot, George Carlin, and Strong Bad reacting to current events in real time.
This reminds me of the bottled heads from Futurama.
That's a really funny wild idea
I need the Bill Hicks version as well
This fills me with dread.

It just dawned on me how disruptive this tech is. If you think we are drowning in a sea of shitty content now, just wait until this type of thing is deployed on demand and at scale into people's feeds.

This actually had me laughing which equals a dopamine hit. I can easily see people endlessly watching rapid fire equivalents of this in a hypothetical future TikTok ursurper.

> just wait until this type of thing is deployed on demand and at scale

South India averages 4 movies a week. Each movie has like 5 songs. So in a year you need lyrics for atleast 1000 songs. Sure, lyricists are creative artists, but not that creative. So you hear a lot of catchy songs which have some AI input. Here’s a song with 45 million views - I don’t think a human wrote all of it because it’s mostly garbage, but very catchy, so most likely AI augmented. https://youtu.be/MJmxdlCtFWU

Only an AI would write something like - 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2, i love u 2 really i love u 2.

There already seas of ai content on YouTube, mostly based on a script that's a long post stolen verbatim from Reddit. SEO pushes people to the pages. Content doesn't have to even be good if it's cheap enough to make
The future will be filled with ads for things that are real. It will be what’s scarce and exclusive. And half the things they advertise as real will probably be fake anyway.
Personalized AI generated movies/songs/books are on the horizon.
It will reinforce the gate keepers. AI will destroy mediocrity.
Cool in concept, but shows how important comedic timing is. Example where the semantics requires the pauses and drawn out expressions to really make it work. Might be where the jokes could be written by AI but perfected by humans, especially as comedians use audience feedback to hone their material. Even the best don’t know how any joke will land until it’s delivered. How could any AI incorporate that real world feedback loop?
I was pretty impressed with it, honestly. But I understand what you're saying - a comedian's delivery is different from normal speech. It may be that GPT-3 just wasn't trained with enough standup routines.

(I dread to think what a Sam Kinison AI would be like)

It also shows the importance of a laugh track. I think a lot of Seinfeld material would sound weird, even performed by Jerry himself, in the absence of audience laughter or other contextual background noise.
I actually think this should be possible to train an AI to do. It could alter timing and monitor for laughs, it will learn when and how to pause, and use intonation to maximize for laughter.
Make it a GAN with AI hecklers
I wouldn't be surprised if this routine was guided by the creator. As in, they edited it to make it work and that was probably after discarding a bunch of terrible stuff. Nevertheless it's not unlike how Jerry actually works, he would write a lot, and then edit it down later. He worked hard at it and it sounded almost joyless.
All it needs is a layer of contrastive loss at the top, to tell real Seinfeld and SAInfeld (don't bother checking, it's already registered) apart, and boom! Indistinguishable delivery.
I'll be the annoying guy for this one:

How do we know GPT-3 really wrote this?

I just tried the prompt in the GPT-3 playground and got a similar result. I tried a bunch of other "A Jerry Seinfeld stand-up routine about X." prompts too - it's an interesting prompt format.

Here's what I got for "A Jerry Seinfeld routine about Datasette." (my open source project). Note that the "." is important - without it, GPT-3 tried to generate me a README file for a new Datasette plugin instead.

Jerry:

Hey, have you ever heard of this new website called Datasette?

George:

No, what is it?

Jerry:

Well, it's basically a way to store and share data sets.

George:

Huh. Sounds kind of boring.

Jerry:

Yeah, I know. But it's actually really useful. For example, say you wanted to find out how many people in your city use the same first name as you.

George:

Why would I want to know that?

Jerry:

I don't know. But with Datasette, you could easily find out.

George:

Really? That sounds kind of useful.

Jerry:

Yeah, it's actually really handy for all sorts of things. So if you ever need to find out anything about a data set, Datasette is the place to go.

That was scarily good. I didn’t laugh, but I was also telling myself “this is an AI and I’m not going to laugh.”

Excited and scared to see where this tech is going to be in 10 years.

What will the world be like with computer-generated novels and screenplays?

One thing I really want to see in my lifetime is an "AI" I can feed episodes of a TV show and have it generate more episodes. Like a second season of Firefly or Gravity. Or re-create the finale of Battlestar Galactica and give that show the ending it deserved.
This is amazing, especially the punchline! Some of the Netflix specials I've watched had jokes that were not much better than this. I'm sure with a proper delivery (tone, pauses) it would get quite a few laughs if it was presented on the stage.
Playing around with gpt3 in the past I've noticed it lifts a lot of material and repurposes it. Does some variation of cat food skit exist in the wild? I wouldn't be surprised.
What’s really effective is the way it maintains a thread through the dialog.
Pretty good! Almost a little bit Mitch hedberg fused with Seinfeld
Pretty bad, yet simultaneously surprisedly good. Lots of promise.
I'm having trouble believing this is real and not heavily massaged output. I worked on a AI-like project in 1988 as a programming gig in college, and the output was heavily edited by the composer.

If it is real, I'm actually a somewhat frightened.

It's a lot of fluff
It seems unlikely that this is the real prompt. Even at temperature=1.0, i repeatedly get "Why did the cat cross the road? To get to the other side!" as the response.
It sounds like a real Seinfeld routine performed on an off night.
Perfectly humorless line, to me sounds exactly like Seinfeld.
Years ago on /r/aww someone posted their black cat named Jerry Seinfeld. This sounds like the kind of comedy that this cat Jerry Seinfeld would come up with.

I remember this cat because I improvised a similar comedy bit for him in the comments. Like "Humans, huh? You never see them hunt or fish, but they have all this meat just lying around!"

Very impressive. The only thing missing from AI is a perfected understanding of context without billions of data points. and it has some trouble with the consistency and novelty that humans intuitively understand because of our shared evolution
All it needs to do now is to make some unbelievably pretentious waffle about how it's been perfecting a joke it's entire career only for the joke to turn out to be "What's the deal with poptarts!?".
Does anybody know what model was used to generate the voice? What's current SoTA in voice cloning right now?
That was every bit as fun as watching Seinfeld :|
Its pretty good. I guess the next step is to generate 100 of these in short order. That'll have stand-ups scared.
The scariest part of this is the top YouTube comments saying this is a legitimately funny routine.
This is solid! I'd like to hear Jerry Seinfeld's take on it.
The script is good, the voice synthesis and delivery abysmal.
checks out, just as lame as the real Seinfeld
GPT-3 can take even complete nonsense pretty far before decoherence with some light prompt engineering:

INT. JERRY’S APARTMENT

GEORGE: Somebody hacked my apes. They’re all gone.

JERRY: All gone?

GEORGE: Every single one! Funged!

JERRY: You can’t just funge a man’s ape!

GEORGE: That’s society for you - people are sick!

[KRAMER enters smoking a cigar in an ape costume]

GEORGE: What the fuck Kramer - are you smoking my ape?

JERRY: Give him back his NFT! He needs it to gain entry to the Vladimir Club for the big Cryptoland party tonight.

[KRAMER spits out a mouthful of smoke]

KRAMER: What party?

JERRY: The Cryptoland party.

KRAMER: I can’t go to the Cryptoland party.

JERRY: Why not?

KRAMER: I’m wearing an ape.

JERRY: Well take the ape off.

KRAMER: No, I can’t take him off. I’ve been wearing him for days.

JERRY: How many days?

KRAMER: A long time.

GEORGE: A few days?

KRAMER: Yeah, a few days.

JERRY: It’s those damn NFTs.

GEORGE: No, no. I’ve been wearing my ape for days too.

KRAMER: Really?

GEORGE: Yeah.

KRAMER: Well, why didn’t you say something?

GEORGE: I was embarrassed.

JERRY: We need to get those NFTs off these guys.

GEORGE: Yeah, well you’re not going to have much luck with a knife and a can opener.

JERRY: We’re gonna have to cut them off.

GEORGE: There’s no other way?

JERRY: Well they are basically a thin elastic material. I’m sure they can be stretched over a pair of scissors.

GEORGE: All right.

JERRY: All right.

[JERRY and GEORGE hold KRAMER’S arms down on the table while JERRY sneaks the scissors up behind KRAMER’S NFT]

JERRY: Okay Kramer. Here we go. One, two, three.

[JERRY quickly cuts KRAMER’S NFT off]

JERRY: There it is.

KRAMER: Oh, thank you. My ape. You saved my ape.

GEORGE: Yeah, you’re welcome.

KRAMER: Oh my ape.

[KRAMER puts the NFT on his head]

JERRY: No Kramer!

[JERRY and GEORGE quickly pull KRAMER’S NFT off]

JERRY: Oh my god.

[JERRY and GEORGE are holding KRAMER’S NFT in their hands and it is stained with blood]

JERRY: He cut the poor thing right in half.

GEORGE: I doubt we’re going to find anyone who can sew it back together.

JERRY: He’s just gonna have to go to the party with no NFT.

GEORGE: What are you talking about?

JERRY: The party.

GEORGE: The party.

JERRY: The Cryptoland party.

KRAMER: I’m going to the Cryptoland party?

JERRY: Oh yeah.

GEORGE: Yeah.

KRAMER: Oh yes.

GEORGE: You’re really going, huh?

KRAMER: Yeah.

GEORGE: Well listen Kramer, in order to get into the club, you have to have an approved ape.

KRAMER: What?

GEORGE: See, the Vladimir Club is a very exclusive private club for people who have a funged ape.

KRAMER: I don’t understand.

JERRY: What George is trying to say is, if you want to go to the Cryptoland party, you’re gonna need a new ape.

KRAMER: I see.

GEORGE: You’re gonna need a new ape.

KRAMER: I see.

GEORGE: You’re gonna need a new ape.

KRAMER: I see.

GEORGE: You’re gonna need a new ape.

KRAMER: I see.

GEORGE: You’re gonna need a new ape.

KRAMER: I see.