If I can make fine art with AI, I can only imagine what an artist is able to do with it. I think the word you're looking for is supercharging, not displacing, artists.

To add to this...

The Covid-19 mRNA vaccines use the genetic code for the spike protein on the outside of the virus.

Afaik, for a cancer vaccine you check what proteins are uniquely present on the surface of cancer cells, and then illicit an immune respone for that protein using an mRNA vaccine.

Basically the same logic. However, the difficulty with cancer vaccines is deciding which protein to target, not to mention the diversity of types of cancer.

Sure, but since 2016 it's been about better versions of ordinary chips for ordinary computation.

Now we're using chips more or less optimized for ordinary computation to do AI computation.

Now we're finding ways to optimize for AI instead. There's ample ground for innovation.

Biology is just a framework to understand advanced high order chemistry, just in the same way chemistry is a framework to understand high order physics.

Consciousness is seemingly a gradual process. At no point in time did a non-conscious organism give birth to a conscious one, instead it evolved over tens of millions of generations.

The magic sauce seems to be in the neuronal networks of the brain, and it sure seems that digital neuronal networks can mimick consciousness. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, why not say it's a duck?

Before we truly understand what consciousness actually is, how can we ever be certain anything or anyone is conscious? From my point of view an AI could seem just as conscious as you. To me, that's all I need to know.