"Do airplanes fly?" They don't flap their wings or have feathers or eat bugs. But they do something similar to birds, and useful, so we call it "flying." "Do s

"Do airplanes fly?" They don't flap their wings or have feathers or eat bugs. But they do something similar to birds, and useful, so we call it "flying." "Do submarines swim?" They don't propel themselves with their tails, or extract oxygen from the water with their gills. But they travel underwater, so... one could use that word. "Do computers think?" They definitely won't "think" the same way humans do. But some day they will generate results that look more or less like thinking, at least in some useful areas, so...