I don’t think that advanced computer circuitry, just because it is advanced, can create a sentient, self-aware, alive being. It is absurd. It has to be programed and will never advance beyond its programing.
An when computers supposedly start designing computers, there is no way in the world it can achieve perfection and the imperfections will be exponentially extended into oblivion.
Humans have a conflict of interest when evaluating “intelligence” or “sentience” or “self aware” or even “alive being”.
We make the rules—and then proudly declare we won the game.
That is absurd.
AI may never meet whatever criteria you want to establish for it while it rules the planet with an iron fist and humans become its slaves.
Let me bounce this off your minds: When some people who have experienced NDEs describe the human soul, it is a separate entity that attaches itself to the sub-conscious mind. This animates the human biological animal into something different. That soul finds a symbiotic relationship with the body.
Suppose for a moment that a soul could engage is such an attachment with a machine, even a humanoid machine.
Food for thought.