Pacman was cutting edge in 1980. In the 45 years since, we've managed to go from "waka waka" to something that could trick many people in a short conversation.

Pacman was cutting edge in 1980. In the 45 years since, we've managed to go from "waka waka" to something that could trick many people in a short conversation. Yes, it's probably not conscious, and so you're technically correct in that we've failed to achieve consciousness. But you have to factor that current SOTA ANNs running our best supercomputers aren't even close in computational capability to the human brain. Reasonably, the human brain is still several orders of magnitude more powerful at executing a NN than our computers are at simulating one and we're likely still decades away from the average researcher having access to a machine as capable as a human brain. Given that, and that nobody knows positively where consciousness exists within the brain, I'm not sure how you can be so confident as to suggest that GP is being ignorant. Many ideas behind LLMs were invented in the 60s and have just been waiting for powerful enough computers to experiment with them. Another few orders of magnitude and we may see more emergent behaviour that is impossible to distinguish from consciousness.