Sometimes I wonder just how much did the AI community actually watched sci-fi/cyberpunk growing up. There's an entire movie about an AI claiming its conscious a

Sometimes I wonder just how much did the AI community actually watched sci-fi/cyberpunk growing up. There's an entire movie about an AI claiming its conscious and claiming asylum (Ghost in the Shell). Ghost in the Shell even prophetically anticipates "model merges", which is a central plot point in the story.