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From: demers@beowulf.ucsd.edu (David E Demers)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Humor & AI
Keywords: Mycroft Holmes
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Date: 5 Nov 88 04:20:52 GMT
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The question was raised as to whether a program existed which
would judge the funniness of a joke.  Perhaps the poster had
heard of an old Robert Heinlein story, The Moon is a Harsh
Mistress, in which a computer, Mycroft, becomes "sentient".
Part of the story involves Mike's learning about what makes
jokes funny.  I believe he categorized jokes as "funny once",
"funny always", and "not funny".

Dave DeMers
UCSD 
Dept of Computer Science and Engineering