As for the bonus question, the short (but no less emphatic) answer is “no.” For some of the various reasons for reaching that conclusion, I recommend a book by a computer scientist (who appears to have some background in or at least knowledge of philosophy, but even better, a philosophical temperament or disposition), one which covers an immense amount of territory while being clearly and well written: Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can‘t Think the Way We Do (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021). If more people who often weigh in on this and related questions (about general intelligence, etc.) read this work they might be a bit less confident or cocky or adamant about their beliefs, intuitions, feelings, predictions, and the like; save, perhaps, as those might arise from their more warranted fears about how big corporations will continue (or plan) to exploit AI for their own ends (in conjunction with heavily funded Big Science/Big Data endeavors along the lines of the Human Brain Project), ends which are at once formed and constrained by capitalist imperatives that tend to run roughshod over democratic values and principles, as well as ethical orientations that clash with or critique the corresponding techno-science and scientism wrapped up in the shimmering guise of myths and sci-fi fantasies with all-too-Promethean roots.