A baby and his family dog sit across from each other in a podcast studio.

“Welcome to the talking baby podcast,” says the infant, wearing headphones and sounding like a deep-voiced radio broadcaster. “On today’s episode, we’ll be talking to the weird-looking person who lives at my house.”

So begins a series of humorous interactions between two characters animated by artificial intelligence that's attracted millions of views on social media. They’re a nod to the 1989 movie “Look Who’s Talking” but produced in a matter of hours and without a multimillion-dollar Hollywood budget.

AI helped do all of that, but it didn't craft the punch lines. It’s a relief to comedian Jon Lajoie, who made the videos, that AI chatbots just aren’t “inherently funny.”

“It can't write comedy,” said Lajoie. “It

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