Will self-awareness in robots surpass human consciousness?

The Turing test was developed in 1950 by Alan Turing, and it served the purpose of identifying a machine's level of intelligence and how'human' it can sound, which is done by evaluating a text conversation between a human judge and a machine.[1] Alan Turing predicted that, by the year 2000, computers with as little as 100 megabytes of memory would be able to pass the Turing test with ease and thus be able to replicate human consciousness.[2] This could have be a well-placed prediction, considering the pace of technological developments during his lifetime. Indeed, over the years, digital programs created to establish small talk and generate human-like responses to questions have actually come remarkably close to passing the Turing test in an to attempt to resemble human consciousness (HC). However, Turing's prediction was not entirely accurate in the long run and failed to factor in the technical limitations and other problems that come with compacting computer processing power, which is why although artificial intelligence has been around for a long time, it has yet to truly reach its pinnacle and pass the Turing test to generate responses indistinguishable to human responses and successfully replicate human consciousness.