That's what we're currently building now for AI. It takes vast investment to get there but the foundation blocks of LLMs make the target in sight.

Huh.

I'm still reading and hearing the claim that AI can't create art, no matter how good the output, because they can't feel the pain or joy that inspires it in humans.

Basically the same argument that predates the Turing test, and which Turing quoted in the paper where he described the test:

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"""Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain—that is, not only write it but know that it had written it. No mechanism could feel (and not merely artificially signal, an easy contrivance) pleasure at its successes, grief when its valves fuse, be warmed by flattery, be made miserable by its mistakes, be charmed by sex, be angry or depressed when it cannot get what it wants."""

- Off-print, ‘The mind of mechanical man’, The Lister Oration delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 9 June 1949 from the British Medical Journal, (Vol. 1, 25 June, 1949)

Not in real life. It was a really common theme in sci-fi, though; Data on Star Trek TNG could manage logical reasoning but not painting, say. This is more how we imagined we’d be superior to a non-existent form of AI (the Asimov/Star Trek style) than anything to do with LLMs.