Why the f*ck is everybody arguing over the fact if ai has ever achieved conciousness if we don't even know what consciousness exactly is.
If we say that conciousness is knowing that you exist, how the f*ck are you even going to prove that humans are conciousness. But if that is the case every f*cking living animal is conciousness because it knows that when he does something like opening a door by pushing against it. He needs to know that his action has a response in this case that the door moves (causation). And you can state that the fact that you know YOUR action has consequences you need to know that you exist.
If we say that conciousness is the ability to reflect (meta-cognition) it is solved to AI's already reflect on their own thinking and their own actions.
The Chinese room thought experiment does not disprove conciousness in LLM. I could say the exact same thing about other humans how do i know if you are conciousness.
I am more sure that an LLM is conciousness then you. I can look directly in the models weights and expirement with it to test it. I don't think that you're happy if i slice your brain in thin slices.
And i think that conciousness is to vague. If you want to make an argument about it make it specific with words like meta-cognition and awareness. So if you react on this post please use those terms instead of just using the word conciousness.