You’re asking whether AI could satisfy the functional criteria of life.
Let’s go back to the four constraints:
Information storage
Replication
Energy source
Stable substrate long enough for evolution
And test AI against them.
Could AI Become Life?
If something
@arlanr How about 120 hours + another 140 hours (working a shitty job just to pay the bils and have some money to invest in the startup?)
Recently discarded by my wife and still fucking working on this system. How about that obsession?