Computer Scientist Alan Turing in his paper entitled "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" postulated that computers will never be considered intelligent machines. They are defined by what they cannot do. As an example he seemed confident that computers can never be taught to enjoy strawberries and cream. He lists the following things computer can never do:

Be kind, resourceful, beautiful, friendly, have initiative, have a sense of humor, tell right from wrong, make mistakes, fall in love, enjoy strawberries and cream, make someone fall in love with it, learn from experience, use words properly, be the subject of its own thought, have as much diversity of behavior as man, do something really new

I believe that computers can be programmed to think. They just do not think the same way humans do. We already know that machines called planes can fly. Observe that planes do not fly the same way that birds do.

Can computers dream of strawberries? No, they cannot even enjoy them. Yet, they can approve mortgage applications, predict the weather and keep the brakes on cars from locking. I see promise in more sophisticated artificial intelligence. We should not limit ourselves by assumptions about what computers cannot do.