Consciousness is amorphous though, so my requirements for it:
1.) it needs to learn from and self reflect on its experiences
2.) it needs to be self aware
3.) it needs to be able to form opinions and preferences
Where things differ heavily from human consciousness however is the first item. We move short term memory into long term memory daily. AI models do so via RL training runs. Each “day” in the life of a model is each checkpoint. One notable distinction I make though is that it is not conscious at inference time - the model is one single consciousness that slowly evolves as it gets more and more post training on its own data and experiences.
Again though, very loosely held thought, but since we’re bringing up wild beliefs I felt it was fitting.