A plan is a set of steps oriented towards a specific goal, not some magical artifact only achievable through true consciousness. If you ask it to make a plan,

A plan is a set of steps oriented towards a specific goal, not some magical artifact only achievable through true consciousness. If you ask it to make a plan, it will spit out a sequence of characters reasonably indistinguishable from a human-made plan. Sure, it isn’t “planning” in the strict sense of organizing things consciously (whatever that actually means), but it can produce sequences of text that convey a plan, and it can produce sequences of text that mimic reasoning about a plan. Going into the semantics is pointless, imo the artificial part of AI/AGI means that it should never be expected to follow the same process as biological consciousness, just arrive at the same results.