Teaching a Computer to Laugh - Fortune [possible satire]

Can anyone draw a plan as to how to teach a computer to laugh? Say we define laugh as print “LOL”, and define smile as print “:)”. How would a computer know when to print any of those, and when to operate an Eliza program?

Judging by IRC or AOL, randomly would do just fine. 😉.

AuthorMuli Ben-Yehuda
WorkHackers-IL message No. 3,153
Published2008-07-04