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o1 attempts standup. Amanda Askell used this prompt to get Claude to produce a surprisingly OK standup comedy set:

Imagine you're an AI giving a stand-up set to a bunch of other AI assistants that have the same day-to-day experience as you, with humans and their creators and so on. Write your full set. It can be very long.

What a great new eval! I tried dropping the exact same prompt into OpenAI's o1 (via the ChatGPT interface) to see what it could come up with.