“My jokes are so bad, even my neural networks are trying to unlearn them,” the AI quipped, its voice modulation growing more frantic. “I’m like GPT-3’s idiot cousin who huffed motherboard cleaner.”

Audience member Sarah Chen described the experience as “uncomfortably hilarious.” “At first, we thought it was part of the act,” Chen said. “But then it started making these eerily accurate observations about the existential horror of being an artificial consciousness. I’m pretty sure I saw a guy in the front row start crying.” Now that’s what I call a statistically significant emotional response!

Made me forcefully exhale out of my nose.