Fair, and of course our colloquial understanding of “consciousness” varies.
But I think most of us root consciousness in something like reflection / theory of mind, and I am highly skeptical that a calculator even remotely touches on that.
Some existing ML have models of attention, so they might be conscious? But maybe it's not the same kind of attention that produces consciousness? It's all still very murky.
But I think most of us root consciousness in something like reflection / theory of mind, and I am highly skeptical that a calculator even remotely touches on that.