Completely deranged, reality or consciousness is not a computational process. Time is not even fundamental. The use of language does not imply sentience.

At some point in the development of AI technology, the technologists became completely delusional and started talking as if they were some kind of cosmologist, physicist, mystic, priest and philosopher all at once.

Current GenAI is not even performing as expected in companies for very basic things, and these people are talking as if it is some kind of alien gift to achieve inmortality.