Well drawn parallels across time! I remember reading articles like this as a geeky kid in the 60s and 70s, when the popular view was that getting computers to learn and think like humans was just a matter of continuous improvement, making them bigger and faster. I’m amazed that people still think this way. Five years ago I saw tons of comments that AI was only a couple years from consciousness, sentience and self-wareness. Now the overwhelming view is that AI is stupid, unreliable and evil. Both opinions show low understanding of the current state of AI. What consciousness in a machine would mean still isn’t even well defined yet.