How close are we to Free Guy's digital awareness? The Science Behind the Fiction

Free Guy bills itself as a comedy, but it exists in a world in which Ryan Reynolds doesn't exist. Which, of course, makes it a tragedy. The movie solves this problem by building its own Ryan Reynolds out of code, inside a video game. But, Guy (Reynolds) is more than just a simple NPC. In truth, the emergence of Guy as a fully-fledged awareness inside the game wasn't wholly directed.