<i>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.)</i><p>"The question of whether machines can think... is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim."
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra<p><i>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.</i><p>Even if you're really just using techniques originally developed by AI researchers. It's kind of silly.