There is nothing preventing present AI tech from evolving into consciousness – e

There is nothing preventing present AI tech from evolving into consciousness – except the phenomenal cost of it.
Also do we mean conscious per Session? Per user? As some number of consciousnesses? As one Overall?
The brain runs on how many watts vs a single instance of a n-billion parameter model in today’s level of (limited) complexity?
The compute necessary does not scale linearly. 😉

Its just money.