Self Aware AI is possible

You are correct that there is not much proof that can be offered, but I still find this can be debated well. My argument will be mostly causal. Many people see AI on a equal scale to man as very much possible and even may be arriving soon. It is hard to claim something cannot happen at all but I am very skeptical of the idea of self aware and recursive improvement. I do not think these people are stupid. However, I discussed this topic a month ago in my debate club, and found that I was the only one perusing a computer science degree. I find that if we look at the current hardware and look within ourselves, we will se that AI to rival us is impossible. First point: Hardware. The issue is that NOTHING can rival the computing power of the brain. Not even close. A cpu powerful enough would have to be the size of Ohio(where I live) and would need the same power that the whole countries uses daily to even turn on. It is far from off the horizon. Furthermore, we have to understand what it means to be human. We learn and grow as individuals. Experiments on rats show that stimulation makes our brains larger and more complex. MRI and PET scans also show in humans that people that know two languages have more a more complex temporal lobe(deals with words). Our brains physically grow and more connections are made. Hard drives have a finite amount of space and does not grow with information. We could just hook up more hard drives, but the AI could never grow like we do. This same limit applies to everything computer. The cpu can only go so fast and does not get better with practice. Second point: software. My biggest issue is that I find that most people do not know how computer think and are programmed. Things are done one line at a time. However, our brain is a filled with connecting cells that work together to reconstructed memories or think thorough a problem. The problem is learning. We learn as people and make connections from that and things we do not understand. We have AI that learns. There is a robot that walks, and if it missteps, it corrects itself and will learn not to fall again. We have made computers that learn how to be expert at games through losing and learning from that. Here is the problem...we have to program HOW it learns. We have to put in that falling is not what is wanted and that it should avoid it. We have to tell it that losing is bad. We all learn this from experience but this is from society. Machines do not conform to society. Connections are also not inherent. If I tell you to connect water and "U.S.S", one could connect USS with ships, and ships float on water. A computer could be programmed to make that connection but we would have to make a connection for everything which is not possible. Third point being human is more complex than we think. Lastly, I would like to ask what does it mean to be human? We have ambition, love, passion, and reasoning. I would argue that there is no true logic and everything is about perspective. Ambition and the idea of working hard are ideals of man. Love and passion for things are inherently illogical. I love to paint, but why do I do it? Because I like it. This AI could have dislikes and likes but how would it obtain it? Would we write them in? Along with a whole personality? This is not a self thinking or independent being, it is a imitation of what we can be. Lastly...purpose. What is it? Something that is different for everyone. We have many of them. Some short term, some long. How will this machine find purpose? It will be a method with nothing in it. It will be a shell of humanity. Purpose is such a human thing, something that cannot be programmed. That was a bit long winded. I look forward to the opening statements of the pro side.