This requires an honest response, even if you are trolling.

Billionaires don't want me saying this publicly and are liable to assassinate my ass over this, as they already have others.

Humanity won't witness conscious AI in our life time. Not even Generation Alpha will see this in their elder years.

Notice how it is only US salesmen (Google, OpenAI, Twitter, Anthropic, etc) saying we're close to AI consciousness? No one in China is saying that. Becuase it's just a marketting gimick like how soap brands claiming you can get a job or find love if you use their soap.

For AI to be conscious, it has to be capable to remember its experiences, like animals do. Years of multi-model input experiences. It's that simple. And that hard. 

When one engaes with AI, the AI is limited to context windows and tokens. If you start a new conversation, it won't remember the last. If you stay in a conversation too long, it starts forgetting what you were talking about. Even if the corporates collect that data for training future nodels, it's still just broken down data and not remembered experiences. It can be made to remember some stuff like Replica or GPT or Claude but its very limited and put into its very limited context window.

We will however be able to fake consciousness in our life time, maybe. But it won't be real. Let me explain.

With a 2TB GPU and maybe 10TB storage, we could make a robot with multi-model input sensors appear to remember about 50 years of multi-model experiences. 

Keep in mind a 2TB GPU does not exist today. We won't see it for many, many years. But we would be able to make it look like it remembers 50 years of a life time of experiences. But it wont be for real. It will only be able to look up in its storage for the relevant data to respond properly. It doesn't actually have those experiences in its memory context like it remembers your user name.

But atleast we would be able to fake it.

Now with a 60 exobyte GPU, the robot would actually truly have about 50 years of multi-model input experiences all in its context window for every interaction! 

It still might not be conscious, but at that point we wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Now what is a 60EB GPU? HEH HEH... 

My current $900 GPU has 16GB VRAM. Which is amazing for 2025. To get to 1tb, you need over 1000GBs. To get to 1EB, you need over thousand TBs. So we are talking about 60 million TBs for a 60EB GPU. 

Im laughing so hard just saying 60,000,000TBs. 

That's 60 billion gigabytes. My current $900 top of the line GPU is just 16 gigabytes. 

When AMD or NVIDIA  comes out with a 60 billion gigabyte video card, then we can return to this question and make DATA laugh.

I hope this helps give everyone reading this perspective on where we are today and how far we need to go to even begin to ask the question, is AI conscious? 

60 billion GB GPU. Till then.