Very good, valid and interesting points. However, I think you need also to understand Picasso's answer in the context of his art and what computers were until

Very good, valid and interesting points. However, I think you need also to understand Picasso's answer in the context of his art and what computers were until the 70's. Picasso was one of the most radical language innovators in art history. Every couple of years he would radically break up with the language and style he mastered in the previous years. He was an obsessive revolutionary. On the other hand, until the late 70's computers were not really creative tools for artists. True, they were for engineers and programmers. But only after the introduction of the Mac, Amiga, Windows, NeXT, etc they'd be used for visual arts, design, CG, music, architecture, virtual reality, gaming, etc. So, today, besides of providing answers that lead to other questions (as you mentioned), they now can be used to create real art in the Picasso sense: as new ways to perceive reality and to express it.