well AI at this point and time in history are still far away from Cylons west world HALL, SHODAN, AL, GLados etc. Maybe one day we will reach that level, maybe not. However just think about it, having a AI scientist kinda like the synthetic in Alien or replicators in Stargate it means having one or more scientists who dont need sleep, food, breaks and never gets distracted. They will just work, all day of the week, all night, all hours, restless for so much it takes. Same thing can be said for artificial workers engineers, soldiers and what else. Anyways we are still far of. Maybe we will upload or consciousness maybe not. However AI (IMO speaking) is quite easy, compared to AC artificial consciousness.