Anesti Danelis is feeling burnt out and needs some help writing a new show, so why not ask ChatGPT?
Artificially Intelligent 2.0 is more or less the same show from 2024 with some updates, optimized for a culture that is much more hostile to AI.
So of course, I couldn’t help but ask ChatGPT how it would review it.
I discovered that ChatGPT and I agree that the show was “joyful” and “razor-sharp” and Danelis writes hooky melodies with unexpected punchlines. His AI collaborations were “unhinged,” truly. ChatGPT also shows no self-awareness in its effusive assessment of the show, and doesn’t really understand what is funny.
The uncomfortable gap between Danelis’ deeply human insecurities and foibles and ChatGPT’s complete lack of humanity is where the humour is. So long as the machines don’t figure that out, we’re ok.
The show hits harder this year, feeling more like laughing through the apocalypse than laughing at a quirky technology that could mess us up if allowed to run unchecked.
Artificially Intelligent 2.0 is on at Alumnae Theatre’s Mainstage until July 12.
