Can AI ever gain consciousness?

[DarkRange55]

Isn't that all AI is? Ultimately when the training phase is settled, isn't AI just another computer program that has stopped changing? I.e., just another computable function.

Current mainstream AI, yes. (But even that is intentional to avoid catastrophic forgetting, and unapproved uses).
Future AI can continue to learn, including to correct itself.

 

[Travis]

Not fully but close enough