I know a lot of people, myself included, said that embodiment was the goalpost to AGI or even consciousness. But now that embodiment is a possibility, I'm being forced to move that to being "raised for years by parent(al figure)s and socialized among peers)."
I know a lot of people, myself included, said that genetically engineered catgirls were the goalpost to AGI or even consciousness. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be on the table, so our goalposts aren't going anywhere.
I've read and watched enough sci-fi to know that that's how you create evil AGI clones (probably wearing virtual mustaches) when a burst of alpha particles flips the wrong weights during the copy.