When I was a little kid, I loved scifi with sentient robots or computers. One day, I asked my dad (a high school teacher), what would a computer do if you order

When I was a little kid, I loved scifi with sentient robots or computers. One day, I asked my dad (a high school teacher), what would a computer do if you ordered it to fly? He guessed it would reject the order because it was impossible. I asked him what would happen if someone programmed the computer to believe it could fly? We've only seen the word in TV, it was the mid 70s, but he correctly guessed that it would behave like it was flying. I thought it was sensible and didn't ask more questions. This little interaction has stayed with me for fifty years, and it has become surprisingly more accurate the more computing advances.