Consciousness doesn't matter. My phone is conscious when its battery is low.
What you really want is "free will", by which you really mean information complexity, especially of the recursive kind. ("Consciousness" here is only interesting because of self-reflection, which is a kind of recursion, I guess.)
So to answer your question, no, LLMs don't increase information complexity in any way, so they aren't interesting as intelligence.
What you really want is "free will", by which you really mean information complexity, especially of the recursive kind. ("Consciousness" here is only interesting because of self-reflection, which is a kind of recursion, I guess.)
So to answer your question, no, LLMs don't increase information complexity in any way, so they aren't interesting as intelligence.