I've been playing around with ConceptNet for a year now, it's extremely impressive but I haven't quite applied it to a domain yet. I often wonder about the cul

I've been playing around with ConceptNet for a year now, it's extremely impressive but I haven't quite applied it to a domain yet. I often wonder about the cultural aspect you mention as I worked with a group that was attempting to model space, time and opinion data: i.e. 'dog isA food' differs according to geographic location. The old joke goes: scientists create a super intelligent computer and ask it 'is there a God?', and the computer replies 'there is now'. If future AIs are trained primarily on the English speaking Internet then perhaps God really will be an Englishman. For that to really be the case though the computer's reply would have to actually be a joke. Perhaps it's time, given people are claiming they've passed the Turing test on dubious grounds for media attention, that a new test is established based on whether the computer can tell a funny joke. Higher level comedy plays with meaning and context, thus to make a joke you have to display mastery over the possible meanings as well as building a mental model of how your interlocutor will process it. Thus a being that can tell a joke is displaying a distinct sophistication. Many humans might fail that one though.