Frankly, it is 1 script away. GPT-4 + a self-feeding script is conscious (obviously). Just not as conscious as a human being (but much more conscious than a sleeping human being).
Man, all these companies and engineers that wasted billions over a decade trying to crack self-driving cars are gonna have egg on their face after reading this
What do self-driving car have to do with the question of consciousness?
Forget self-driving cars, lets talk about self assembling automatons, I'm talking about ... TRANSFORMERS robots in disguise!