My first professional stand up comedy gig

 In April and May, I took an Introduction to Stand Up Comedy course at Comedy Bar. My first attempt was dreadful (though opinions may differ), but with the insightful guidance of my classmates and teacher, Dan Galea, I put together a "tight five" set that I am pretty proud of.

The class performance went well enough that in June I was asked to be one of a dozen comics at a subsequent show for budding comedic talents. I think my first professional stand-up gig went quite well; you can judge for yourself below. 

I hope you enjoy. 

Leslie's Diatribes #4: Show Me The Money!

There are many critiques that people have made about the AI industry: privacy, piracy, electricity and water usage, hallucinations, and more. Today's Podcast for Inquiry is a monologue in which I ask: Where does the money for AI firms come from? Each AI datacentre costs tens of billions to build, and hundreds of billions have been spent across the industry. Each time an LLM answers a question, or an AI model generates an image, audio file, or video, a lot of power and CPU cycles are used - in other words, AI is expensive to build and expensive to run. Hardly any consumers, and very few companies, are paying for AI services. If they’re not profitable, and there’s no clear path to become so, why are the market capitalizations of AI firms so high? 

I asks these questions, and more, in latest diatribe. 

Note: Opinions in this episode are mine alone, and are not shared by others on the Podcast for Inquiry team or the Centre for inquiry Canada.

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