me a joke but don't use wordplay. And then it will tell me a joke with wordplay. And then I'll say, okay, but try it again, but I want no wordplay, no puns, no clever wording, nothing with wordplay, just a joke. And it will give you another joke with wordplay because it actually can't do anything else.

Now this is probably a quiz that you can all do well on. Are fart jokes funny? In the comments, tell me, are fart jokes funny? To a segment of the population, 100% of fart jokes are funny. You know that, right? You might not be in that segment, but I think it's 25% of the public. That's just a guess. It feels like it would be 25% thinks all fart jokes are funny. My beloved late father was in that 25%. If you wanted Dad to laugh, I wouldn't go too clever. No, no. But if you could make a good fart joke, Dad would be laughing. I'll tell you, that's funny stuff.

So here's what I need to tell you as a professional humorist. What is the lowest form of humor? What is the lowest, considered the least capable, easiest, lowest form of humor? Some people would say wordplay and puns. Other people would say bathroom humor and farts. But AI apparently has risen all the way to the level of the lowest humor you could ever write: wordplay about a fart. And somebody was bragging about how AI had finally broken through into the humor domain. No, it hasn't. No, it hasn't. If your best joke is a fart joke with wordplay, you have not entered the world of humor. You have not. You're knocking on the door, but you're not inside. You're definitely outside the door. So no, AI is not about to take your job.

Now can you imagine AI would ever be good enough to do a Dave Chappelle-like humor where he's weaving together a whole tapestry and you don't know where it's heading until the surprise ending that ties it all together and makes you question your convictions and makes you see things from the other side for the first time? It can't do that. Will it ever be able to do that? Well, I don't think so. Though let me be specific. I don't think that the large language models will ever produce humor that would be Chappelle-quality humor or Seinfeld or most of the greats. And the reason is that AI is designed to stay safe. That's the first problem. Because Chappelle never works safe. He doesn't work dirty, but he's never safe. And AI only has to be safe. It's designed that way. And more importantly, AI has to be boring and inoffensive. And I just can't see it doing it.

And the other thing is that a human is sort of surfing the zeitgeist. So Chappelle knows what you're feeling and thinking, and then he crafts his work around it. And he would change it a month from now if you're feeling and thinking differently. AI can't do that. Not even close.

All right. Microsoft has overtaken Apple as the world's largest or most valuable company. So Microsoft is the most valuable company. I told you a while ago that I was selling my Apple stock. This is not financial advice. Not financial advice, because I don't give financial advice. I'm not good at it, really. But I did sell my Apple stock because I was worried about the risk of AI, because they seem behind. And I did buy a bunch of Microsoft stock before it had its run. So God, I got lucky, man. The most important part of investing is pure luck. Pure luck. The App