It depends on what you consider self-awareness. An agent that is able to distinguish between other things and it self may be considered self-aware. And I don't think that would be hard to do.
If you mean like us, I think right now it is technically possible but not feasible in terms of resources. Maybe it is, but it won't worth it.
We have the pieces of software needed to do it, we are close to have data enough, but we don't have the hardware to run it on realtime efficiently.
Also, it seems dangerous (and many experts agree that it actually is). I don't think we'll see it any soon.
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It depends on what you consider self-awareness. An agent that is able to distinguish between other things and it self may be considered self-aware. And I don't think that would be hard to do.
If you mean like us, I think right now it is technically possible but not feasible in terms of resources. Maybe it is, but it won't worth it.
We have the pieces of software needed to do it, we are close to have data enough, but we don't have the hardware to run it on realtime efficiently.
Also, it seems dangerous (and many experts agree that it actually is). I don't think we'll see it any soon.