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They will at least try to make self aware AI with emotions. You have to understand with scientists and programmers: if it can be though of, someone is going to try to, even if for no other reason to have egg-head proof that it can happen.
That being said, sci-fi wirters are typically not, on any level, students of the science they write about. The matrix, terminator, and even I Robot were all written by people with no workign knowledge of programming and what goes into programming.
Constraints are a very basic part of any program, and are not only easy to implement, they are one o fthe fundamental building blocks of any programming language. Although it is possible to write programs that replicate and mutate (a LOT of viruses do this), the "Self aware, reprogramming istelf" program that seems to be the staple in these stories just isnt possible, unless someone designed it to do so.
Basically for any of those scenarios to work, you would need someone who was a brillaint, completely immoral, psychotic, or clueless programmer.
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