Computers aren't very funny, but they pick up colloquialisms well - after all, all they know is what you tell them, so tell them your colloquialisms once, and they will know them forever.
Their wordplay abilities tend to be directly proportional to the amount of data on which they were trained, and inversely proportional to the breadth of subject material they are trained on. Also, puns generally require some knowledge of pronunciation and the semantics of the area under discussion - both of which computers are simply abysmal at.
Also, they do pretty much suck at chatting, it's just that our requirements for chatting online are so low. Chat conersations are atrocious - you think you've seen bad grammar and spelling and annoying abbreviations in emails and livejournal? You ain't seen nothing compared to the grammarial wasteland that is IM. So perhaps it's like Misuba said above - it's not that they could pass it, it's that we would fail it.
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Date: 2005-06-30 08:58 pm (UTC)Their wordplay abilities tend to be directly proportional to the amount of data on which they were trained, and inversely proportional to the breadth of subject material they are trained on. Also, puns generally require some knowledge of pronunciation and the semantics of the area under discussion - both of which computers are simply abysmal at.
Also, they do pretty much suck at chatting, it's just that our requirements for chatting online are so low. Chat conersations are atrocious - you think you've seen bad grammar and spelling and annoying abbreviations in emails and livejournal? You ain't seen nothing compared to the grammarial wasteland that is IM. So perhaps it's like Misuba said above - it's not that they could pass it, it's that we would fail it.