That's pretty much how consciousness works, on a very generalised level. We have a continuous prompt, that's why sensory deprivation is weird, when we have no

That's pretty much how consciousness works, on a very generalised level. We have a continuous prompt, that's why sensory deprivation is weird, when we have no input our brain starts generating its own. The problem with these models is it only responds to input, there's nothing else going on there. It never initiates a conversation, only ever responds to input.