Save us from the reasoning / sentience / consciousness / thinking semantic quicksand.

Babbage’s Analytical Engine didn’t actually analyze anything, and terminology hadn’t gotten any more clear-cut since.

+1. Inputs, processing & memory do the job.

I suspect exact and/or universal definitions for intelligence, self-awareness, 'feelings' etc will prove to be elusive, and best we'll get is systems/robots etc behaving as if possessing those qualities. With some tests to put a number on them.

Downside is that may apply to us humans too.