Merrill Grambell Is an AI With Its Own Talk Show

But if the absurd meanderings of talk-show bot Merrill Grambell are any indication, Jimmy Fallon can probably rest easy. The automated persona is the freewheeling host of the recurring comedy series Deep Learning With Merrill Grambell, in which it interviews comedians, artists and other creative types with varying degrees of coherence. Even creator Will Brierly, a video game designer and comedy writer, doesn't know what will happen when his procedural generator takes the stage, most often in the form of a crudely sketched man with a pencil mustache and a genial mid-Atlantic accent projected onto a screen next to a panel of guests. "It's such a surprise for me watching the show, too," Brierly said. "You put in all this stuff that you think will probably happen or hope will happen, but you can't practice it."