No, I'm organic and "man made intellect" does not exist yet. I don't think there's anything magical about consciousness, it's a physical phenomenon like any other.

But I am highly skeptical of the claim that all it takes is computation. We don't have a firm understanding of consciousness. We do have a very extensive understanding of computers. It's incredibly wishful thinking to just assume the thing we understand and are surround by also just happens to be capable of a phenomenon we don't understand.

I'm sure one day some clever people will make some sort of machine that reproduces the phenomenon of consciousness. But I highly doubt it's gonna be in our lifetimes.

Some wealthy people who get off on the idea of being the smartest person in the room heard Roko's Basilisk, and because they devalue all humanities and have never considered a philsophical question in their lives, immediately fell into a secularized re-creation of protestant belief where AI is both God and the devil. There's no progress there. Only an overcapacity in graphics chip production, waiting for a market correction.

I just think that those of you sticking your head in the sand when it comes to AI are misguided. If it’s a disinformation campaign to slow or stop its progress, I totally understand that there are valid reasons to do so, but I don’t think they will succeed in the end.

You sound like one of those Christians who cannot conceptualize atheists. They cannot consider a lack of belief, rather atheists must believe all the same things they do, they're just mad at god. Similarly, you cannot countenance the idea that AI isn't all its been promised to be, so I must secretly agree with you, but be fighting against the computer god.