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As someone who writes very funny things, laughter is an involuntary response and it fuses ideas in peoples minds in a way that is difficult to unlink. There is
by motohagiography 5y ago
As someone who writes very funny things, laughter is an involuntary response and it fuses ideas in peoples minds in a way that is difficult to unlink. There is very likely a version of comedy that would be quite dominating.
An AI comedian would be able to act on humans and cause involuntary responses in them. It doesn't need to be strong or general, this itself is enough to instrumentalize humans to its ends. There is absolutely a flavour of mesmerizing hypnotic language that both standup comedians and self-help gurus use, and it is structured, possibly enough to have its rules encoded or derived by a language model (described as the other NLP).
Perhaps there is a future language model development scheme where you can weight a given text as a primary ontology and then link the rest of the corpus to it so that all incoming stimuli get filtered through that ontology first, sort of like an ideology, but more like you took a corpus of modern mesmerist characters sample texts like Tony Robbins, Osho, Russel Brand, and used their type of syncopated conceptual nesting as a gramatical structure for formulaing statements.
Then again, if someone has already done it, how would we know?
- jayShimada 5y agoPrefacing your comment with “as someone who writes very funny things” is very bold move. But to your observation, I somehow feel more threatened by a joke-cracking amiable AI than a guns-blazing skull-crushing terminator…
- throwanem 5y agoPrior art in the field gives little cause for comfort. https://youtu.be/FBWr1KtnRcI https://youtu.be/FBWr1KtnRcI