The Nature of Humor

i says that if lack of computer power with the only thing preventing the achievement of ai there will be no need to wait explaining how an ai program works in detail might well be intractively complicated. The nature of humor is not well understood so we do not know whether general purpose thinking is required to compose jokes. Despite the wide range of subject matter about which one can joke there are hidden connections that reduce all joke making to a single narrow function. There could one day be general purpose joke making machines that are not people just as today there are general purpose chess playing machines that aren't people it sounds implausible but since we have no good explanation really get out we could not rely on