[YeGoblynQueenne]

>> We also haven't yet created AI machines that exhibit what we would call consciousness, but we have good ideas of how to do so and are making progress.

That's news to me. What do you mean? What are those good ideas that we have and that we are making progress towards, that will lead us to conscious machines?

Actually: conscious software. Presumably, if we can get to strong AI from where we are right now, then we already have the hardware and we just need to figure out how to write the software?