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;