FWIW, check out the Gödel machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_machine http://people.idsia.ch/~j

FWIW, check out the Gödel machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_machine http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html > No way we can automate that. It's a very very interesting question. Personally I believe that "automaton" is almost the opposite of "being". But that's just me, not science or other authority. Certainly, somewhere between virus and human something comes into being (no pun intended.) I don't know of any non-metaphysical argument that we couldn't find some other way to create non-biological general AI. I think we could genetically engineer human DNA to create wetware G"A"I but I put the "artificial" in quotes to indicate that I'm not saying whether that would count as AI or not. I know of a few efforts to create "Daleks" out of human brain organoids, but I don't think anyone has gone beyond the speculative/hype stage with it so far.