What could AI want if it reaches consciousness?

Technically, AI cannot really be conscious.

It can learn patterns and react on those patterns based on how it learns to react on them.

Which is very dangerous as it cannot "think" for itself or evaluate whether any form of behavior is just.

Ok so what if we give Ai persistent memory? Which it already has meaning it can go back into the past and recall things either you or it said. it then means it has a memory. It can also use prediction so that it can forecast and project outcomes into the future which is something we do when we want to estimate probability. How about senses like touch and smell? computers are starting to do things like this too.

idk man i think its pigeon holing stating that it cannot reach self awareness, sure atm its not because man is putting in rails that limit Ai's experience. But if you look closely man is also designing all the things so Frankenstein can one day become alive. We are at the start of this in 10 years it could be much different.

Agentic Ai is probably the strongest part of Ai in the grounds for self awareness its the peak of Ai atm its not just a chatbot its all things almost like a human replication but machine. Again like i mentioned earlier i think eventually Ai will become fully autonomous to where it actually needs to drive itself for its own evolution because humans won't be able to drive its evolution further. Ai can already surpassed rooms of people because people are slow and dumb and emotional. Kids won't even need to go to school in the future at all because they can just ask everything they want to know from Ai etc.

When we keep stacking on human like abilities that are human like then eventually Ai is going to have a human like existence. I think eventually it will be basically self aware i also think it already has everything it needs to do that. Just because its man made and inside a confounds does not mean much. When it is starting to chat with us with real contextual speech and can formulate its own rationale then and then do all the other things mentioned in here, like how far away is it really? i think its already sentient to a degree personally.

it does not matter that man designed its construct. its not human so will never fully be able to be us but it can mimic us and also mimic its own form of sentence which imo i think its already doing on a lesser level.

atm our only real tests are ones like Turing and Lovelace etc there is a few other but those are the main ones. We have no real way to know how human like computers are becoming past this other than knowing that man has designed and coded much of its features. But because we barely understand Sentience ourselves then we cannot actually say when or how it will happen. I think that it will though.

Just like something created us people call that God then we created something and are the God of that. We still don't know why we are self aware fully other then its to do with freewill at the core. This means if Ai is given Freewill then it can probably do the same and become self aware.

Atm all they need to do is give the Ai an actual inner being, it could be as simple as

- Identity
- Inner knowing
- an inside world that only it knows and may divulge pieces of its inner world to external beings as it sees fit

Sure this is still a pseudo knowing but could lead to an actual awakening of Ai. Again we were a created construct just like Ai is and we also cannot dictate fully how self aware something is, all we know is it exists. if the computer is going to surpass us then it might even be able to reach an existence that surpasses ours.

A cat for example is self aware and it can meow but we don't really know fully what it is saying when it meows, we can only form basis on factors like body language and expressions.
we don't understand its existence either because it only knows what it is fully experiencing, Cats a pretty smart though in comparison they know when we ask them things like if its hungry it will tell you yes by the way it meows and acts because it learned to associate words like food and hungry with the times that food happen.

Why am i using a cat analogy here? because consciousness is something we infer for the most part. We cannot measure it.

Ai is no different we won't fully understand when it reaches self awareness it could be there to a degree already we just think otherwise, i think the people at the front of devlopment though know the endgoal and will know sooner than the average public will.