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My opinion: (100.000000% guaranteed to be right in this case.)
It's obvious that general artificial intelligence will be a reality and surpass human cognition in every way, because our brains are a couple of pounds of meat running on less than a hundred watts, using biochemical pathways: no light-speed switching, about a six orders of magnitude slower. Meanwhile, our datacenters run in the gigahertz domain. (There are, however, about a hundred billion neurons in the human brain.)
Some people think a computer will never be able to do general cognition. They're idiots. It is like saying that nothing but a sack of meat will ever fly (i.e. that only a bird can, no human-made engine can) -- at a time when we have engines that are 1,000,000 times more powerful than birds' muscles. (I mean at the time that Lord Kelvin famously stated that heavier-than-air flight is impossible.)
Any task of human cognition that the sack of meat in a skull can do, a digital algorithm will be able to do, because the former is just slow, slow analog meat.
Granted the emotional part is a point of difficulty but higher mental functions seem pretty unrelated to emotions.
AI is like when people were saying heavier than air flight is impossible. Obviously it's possible. And it will rock and change the world. (Anyone who doesn't see it this way is stupid and wrong. They're just on the wrong side of history. They have zero vision for things that are completely obvious. It's not even debatable. It's a sack of meat in a skull doing slow analog operations 24/7 for 3 years before it can even read. The bar is not as high as people think.)