The singularity is close?
A computer system that answers questions logically, creates distributed processes, writes correct distributed threaded code, can operate and create a set of Turing machines, can correctly respond to human social and body language, can create a B2 bomber automatically from scratch without any input, maintains contextual memory in silicon still isn&#x27;t anymore conscious than a rock. Metallic complexity is not producing instances of consciousness and never will. Computer science has nothing to do with understanding the biological, microscopic electromagnetic phenomenon that produces an instance of consciousness. Silicon is not oxygen+water+blood+flesh+an electromagnetic field, which is the substrate that produces consciousness. It&#x27;s dishonest to impressionable people to refer to AI as conscious or to view computers as anything but objects like tanks, spoons, speakers. There is no intrinsic value to a computer systems existence, apart from the observation by humans, of the actions it performs (and said humans life system support). There is no value because they are not collapsing the wave function to observe anything (ie, exhibiting free will at the microscopic level smaller than what is observed by deterministic molecules). The only value AIs have is the value formed by the consensus of living humans that can observe their actions. Consciousness is a physical phenomenon specified in the fabric of the universe, discovered by random by life on Earth, that yield(ed) better survival for the implementing organism.