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From: peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: RE: Artificial Intelligence and Laughter
Message-ID: <466@soleil.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 88 19:56:31 GMT
Organization: GE Solid State, Somerville, NJ
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In message <1620@hp-sdd.HP.COM> Mr. Flor writes:

>Let's just say that smiling/laughter is a result of the ONIGI phenomenon.
>(Oh, Now I Get It).
>
>Did you smile?

No.  I'm so used to seeing acronyms that I don't know that I just store
them away on the undefined-acronym-queue in my brain.  I have faith that
someday all these undefined acronym's will shed their light of truth in
my mind and enrich the meaning of my life.

In message <11482@bellcore.bellcore.com> Mr. Ackley writes:

>Girdle's Humor Incompleteness Theorem guarantees that no finite,
>effective decision procedure can recognize ALL and ONLY humorous
>inputs.

This is great!  I wish I had thought this up.

In message <3244@sdsu.UUCP> Mr. Caasi writes:

>Does anyone know of any work or program that takes a joke as
>input and outputs some number, say between 0 to 10, based on
>the funniness of the joke?

Yes!  It's the program called the "mind" and it's running in the hardware
called the "brain".

Of course, if you've been following talk.religion.misc, you know,
that Mr. Smith knows, that Dave Peru has no brain.

In message <41419@linus.UUCP> Mr. Kort writes:

>Dave, I would be interested to learn how your program thinks
>about the question, "Why am I interested in understanding
>how I think?"

I logged in this morning, the program said, "Hello Dave", I then asked
the program this question.  Results:

Kaboom, implosion, HA HA HA HA!

In message <41420@linus.UUCP> Mr. Kort writes:

>Do you suppose it is a coincidence that mathematicians refer
>to inconsistency as "Reductio ad Absurdum"?

This idea was expressed by the same mathematicians who at the
beginning of this century thought you could make a perfect system
of mathematics.  Mr. Kort, have you created a perfect system of
mathematics that we are not aware of?