Picasso and Computing

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers". Thus said Pablo Picasso in the earliest stages of computing (he died in 1973). An interesting observation then, but given advances in artificial intelligence, is that statement in any way still true? From a technological perspective, probably not, but from a human one? Allow me a contrarian opinion - that Picasso was a hypocrite, blind to his own reality. What can one make of his black and white works - are they not "binary", the visual equivalent of zeroes and ones? If the beauty lies in the shade, does not the beauty of code lie in its results (the graphic image), not its electronic essence (zeroes and ones)? Say you what you will about co-gen artwork it is certainly visually arresting. And does it not reflect the creativity of its programmers more than that of the machine itself? Picasso should have spoken to McLuhan to understand computing as an extension of the human self. Technology is neutral, it reflects us. Look hard enough, and computers can give you plenty of questions as well as answers.