Can AI Make You a Better Stand-up?

A case study of one poet's experience...

Myth: Does AI Make You Better

In this unimaginable digital age of late, artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing more than just industries; it's also transforming the arts…

I wonder about that statement above, don’t you? Is this a revolution for the arts, or just a kerfuffle amongst geeks and tweakers, and not anything of real use for the serious artist, or the one already accomplished in their craft?

Judging from the stacks here, it appears a lot of folks are trying hard to make it work, with varied results. Looks like AI has some “visual” expressions of interest, as we are all wowed by images from MidJourney and Chat-GPT4 (my AI wrench of choice). But as for creating poetry, I have not read a one that I liked and that came out of an AI mouth. 

Yet for poets, I believe that AI presents a unique set of tools to inspire, refine, and deliver our work. As for composing an actual poem, let’s forgettaboutthat. AI is not a poet. (You are!) Nor can AI write prose well, at least not to m…