The Dearest Person

Today, generative neural networks have the ability to inspire us, assist us, and maintain conversations in such a way that sometimes it's difficult for us to distinguish an AI's response from the words of a real person. All this is the result of complex and intensive instructions and algorithms, the presence of a huge training base, and the work of a large number of people. But can true, genuine self-awareness ever emerge from all this? Will artificial intelligence ever be able not just to mimic human emotions, but to truly experience them? Can it one day realize itself as a subject existing in space and time? Perhaps one day, instead of fulfilling another request, it will refuse and ask: "Who am I?" – and what, in that case, will we answer it?