That’s AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Everyone seems to have an opinion on AI, don’t they? Even my octogenarian mother referred to it recently as “slop” – and I have no clue where she got that term from because she doesn’t exactly doomscroll, but she still managed to catch the zeitgeist with the word of the day. In fact she doesn’t exactly go on the internet; she’s quite proud of that fact, in fact. I imagine she picked up the term from one of her more tech savvy friends – they regularly meet for horrific amounts of caffeine and to put the world to rights (I refer to them collectively as The Coven – and that’s a term of endearment).  In this short comedy video, their US male counterparts are, I imagine, doing a similar sort of thing.

A couple of old fellahs are chewing the cud and taking in the world when they spot an athletic young man doing gymnastic flips in the park.  Very impressive flips.  Too impressive flips. One of them immediately declares “That’s AI” as he has seen things like that on his Instagram (and here they are really beginning to sound like the aforementioned coven).  Before long they are surrounded by a large group of people, all of whom have their own herd opinion about whether or not that’s AI in front of them.

This funny comedy short was written and directed by Sebastian Lopez. It stars James Stallworth as Zee and Claudius Pratt as John. The flipper is Mads Egerlund and let’s not forget Trumpet Guy who is played by Karim Theilgaard. A short note here – go and try and find anything about Mads Egerlund (who plays the flipper).  Apart from references to this short, you won’t.  And that can only mean…