John Mulaney was hired by an AI event to perform a comedy set,

and he mercilessly tormented them on stage.

 

 

“So many of you feel imminently replaceable.”

Organizers Salesforce branded the AI event in San Francisco last week as the “largest AI event in the world,” with an estimated 45,000 attendees.

Stand-up comedian John Mulaney was asked to do a performance at the event.

However, they had no idea that Mulaney would soon destroy both the business and the AI sector overall, giving everyone in the Dreamforce audience a deadly reality check.

Mulaney mocked the AI sector throughout his 45-minute performance for its readiness to cede human agency, with frequently essentially defective chatbots providing users with fictitious information about current affairs, career guidance, and even medical diagnoses.
According to the San Francisco Standard, a deadpan Mulaney told the audience, “If AI is truly smarter than us and tells us that [humans] should die, then I think we should die.”

“So many of you feel imminently replaceable.”

He went on, “Can AI sit there in a fleece vest?” “Can AI not go to events and spend all day at a bar?”
Mulaney also drew attention to the grave irony of holding the event in a community that has seen terrible rates of violence, overdose fatalities from drugs, and housing instability.

He said, “Let me get this straight.” “You’re hosting a ‘future of AI’ event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?”

Ironic Toxin

Mulaney also addressed the industry’s continued attempts to use AI to replace human labor, a contentious issue that has gotten a lot of attention in recent years.

Mulaney used the chance to make fun of the guests’ self-congratulatory and navel-gazing behavior.
“Some of the vaguest language ever devised has been used here in the last three days,” he stated. “The fact that there are 45,000 ‘trailblazers’ here couldn’t devalue the title anymore.”

Additionally, he expressed gratitude to the audience for essentially turning his son’s world around so that he “will never talk to an actual human again.” The boy is now almost three years old.

Mulaney informed audiences that chatbots still had a strong propensity to “hallucinate” facts.

“Instead, a little cartoon Einstein will pop up and give him a sort of good answer and probably refer him to another chatbot,” Mulaney said.

Mulaney conveyed the idea home by sharing anecdotal evidence about himself and his son.
“We’re just two guys hitting Wiffle balls badly and yelling ‘Good job’ at each other,” he explained. “It’s sort of the same energy here at Dreamforce.”