Can we design Artificial Intelligent Systems, which tell jokes? In the future we will have robotic androids and it would be great if they had a sense of humor? Is it possible to program personality and even a sense of humor into an AI Machine? Can we develop AI Programs, which can create new jokes and tell them to humans, which we will consider funny? That would certainly be pushing the realm of current abilities in AI.

This subject recently surfaced in an online think tank when one member stated; Translation engines make such funny alterations of intent all the time. For example, put your resume into babelfish, translate it to Chinese, then to French, then back to English. It's an amusing result, but not intended as humor. This is it's best effort.

Yes I see your point and why sometimes best efforts is unacceptable and thus this brings me back full circle to my argument as well, just as your resume went around in circles to come up with an amusing result. It is not good enough is it? And I believe that an artificial intelligent robotic android is not good enough and I am not sure I want one which cannot laugh at my jokes and recognize them or make their own and ones I have never heard of unique thinking and joke making.

What if an artificial intelligent machine could spit out two resumes? One perfect in every regard and another, which was a joke. Stating that from 1992-1997 you were the King of England, from 1997 to 2000 you ran the World Bank and from 2001 to 2006 you have been the Emperor of China and you are seeking employment as a computer programmer for IBM? You would laugh too hard, think that was the coolest machine in the World and then it would spit out your perfect resume in every regard to take with you? Consider this in 2006 and lighten up; have a sense of humor. Consider this in 2006.