I mean we really don't need something to be conscious, would just need it to be accurate, the current models simply aren't built on a framework to be accurate. I think that it's possible, and already being done to effectively instill accuracy. The issue there is that you no longer have the mass marketable general purpose machines that compete with things like Google / Facebook etc for eyeballs, which is where the huge money exists. So you can either sell valuable inference to a target audience and make a few billion. Or you can sell passable slop to 8 billion people and be worth a few trillion.