Which is why it’s possible. We don’t know why life is conscious. What if it is just a function call on a clock timer? You can’t dismiss it because it can’t be proven one way or another until it can be. That requires more research, which this is advancing.

We will have something we call AGI in my lifetime. I’m 42. Whether it’s sentient enough to know what’s best for us or that we are a danger is another story. However I do think we will have robots that have memory capable of remapping to weights to learn and keep learning, modifying underlying model tensors as it does using some sort of repl.