Marc Andreessen Thinks AI Can Save Comedy [Video]

AI is already providing us with some answers, but venture capitalist Marc Andreessen believes it may also soon be able to give us a laugh.

The cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz said in an interview with Substack CEO Chris Best that the tech could be a revival that comedy requires.

“Comedy needs a Renaissance very badly,” he said. “It’s basically died. So it could be the way the story gets told as, like, AI saves comedy.”

Andreessen said that as video generation tools like Luma AI continue to advance, animators will be able to produce shows at a much faster pace.

“You’ll be able to come up with jokes and render a cartoon in basically half an hour that is as good as those guys that, 20 years ago, needed a complete production facility,” he said.

AI-generated videos have already been making a controversial splash among artists, with developers beginning to trial various text-to-speech tools like Open AI’s Soraor Google’s VEO. While some artists …

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