My first experience with AI was playing against a chess computer in the 1980's and losing. I was young, didn't understand computers, and wasn't a very good chess player, but after I kept losing I had this eerie feeling about the machine, like it was an actual sentient being. I've been aware of the power of anthropomorphism ever since and noticed the readiness for humans to do ascribe feelings and thoughts to things that don't actually have them. The computer is the medium and tool for capturing the intelligence and data of the programmers behind it, so I think the right question is asking if Watson is self-aware. There is no evidence to support that and it is doubtful it will happen any time soon, but that's almost irrelevant. The combination of the user, the computer, the programmers behind them and the world's data working together is a new kind of intelligence and is almost frightening in it's power.
According to Wikipedia all insects except locusts are non-kosher and some grasshoppers are omnivorous. So there must be some grasshoppers that don't "keep kosher".
