The technological singularity is close for purely automate-able processes. General AI, either in the form mimicking humans or a "being" similar is a ways off,

The technological singularity is close for purely automate-able processes. General AI, either in the form mimicking humans or a "being" similar is a ways off, amorphous, and far off for what people might see portrayed in fiction. One also has to ponder the functional definitions of self-awareness, intelligence(s), and consciousness as not magical but as emergent properties of the "individual" inferred by others through behaviors, especially communication. It is anthropocentric and arrogant to assume other agents are lesser or incapable simply by lacking a common language or mutual behavioral understanding. Learning and optimization for improving one's power and resources (fitness function, gradient vectors, bank account balance;), etc.), especially through play and speed of adaptation through feedback would be strong signals of this.