With the much progress made in AI, will computers be able to think on their own sometime in the future?

Answer 1

Jules Verne imagined submarines before they were actually deployed so...
why not?!

Answer 2

Yes! It's not that hard actually. It depends how you see "Thinking on their own". It's pretty easy to create a software that generates code and runs it as its own source. That's a way of "Thinking on their own".