This is easy to laugh at, but the different levels of meaning necessary to tell and understand a joke are something that's uniquely human. Humor is one of the main things that separates human thought from machine reasoning and being able to understand it would lead to some important breakthroughs in developing more intelligent and useful computers.
It's sad when lazy journalists and politicians pick on research they don't understand to advance their own agendas.
Popularizing inane blurbs like
"Why do we need to pay for a joke machine when we already have Congress?"
is directly responsible for making our country dumber.
This is easy to laugh at, but the different levels of meaning necessary to tell and understand a joke are something that's uniquely human. Humor is one of the main things that separates human thought from machine reasoning and being able to understand it would lead to some important breakthroughs in developing more intelligent and useful computers.
It's sad when lazy journalists and politicians pick on research they don't understand to advance their own agendas.
Popularizing inane blurbs like
is directly responsible for making our country dumber.