It sheds about as much light as asking whether an aircraft carrier can swim. (I am informed that aircraft carriers do indeed swim... in Russian.) "The question

It sheds about as much light as asking whether an aircraft carrier can swim. (I am informed that aircraft carriers do indeed swim... in Russian.) "The question of whether machines can think... is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra This is one of the reasons why academic AI is, ahem, pretty dead as a field: after you actually get something working we drum you out of the field. Even if you're really just using techniques originally developed by AI researchers. It's kind of silly.