Consciousness cannot be engineered or manufactured. All A.I. does is attempt to simulate a human response, not replicate it completely. Will A.I. become far more advanced? Yes it will. Will A.I.‘s ever be able to achieve self awareness? No. The best we will be able to do is is engineer technology that that makes it more difficult to tell the difference between artificial intelligence and human consciousness, in application. That’s where the Turing Test comes in.