This post makes a critical error. It is talking about sci-fi AI. Artificial Consciousness. What we have is, while useful for many things (with proper constraints), just prediction engines that behave like intelligence. Generating a sentence when specifically asked to do so is a far cry from independently pondering over your existence then picking up the God of Thunder's hammer. If anything, the public has been primed…
and when AI agents start tasking llms to build better llms on their own that then turn into better agents that then task automated robots to design better hardware then manufacture it and configure it and run agents that start tasking llms to build better llms on their own that etc at what point does it cease to become a simple mathematical function and start to become an "organism"?
I don't see any evidence that current LLMs even have a path to that.