caasi@sdsu.UUCP (Richard Caasi) (11/09/88)
The earlier posting about a program being able to understand jokes was basically to get a feel for the reactions from the netlanders. Obviously, there are quite a few problems to overcome in this area but I perceived those with negative reactions to harbor very pes- simistic expectations of the future of ai. Perhaps a "joke under- standing" program should be a suitable replacement for the Turing test. (-: