LLMs are not conscious and will never be conscious until they either put them on cloned human brains or figure out real time learning. Once that happens, I'll change my mind. That said...

I've been experimenting with keeping a single session going for a very long time and mixing in several different topics and the thing is now responding like I would. I can see how people might see that as some kind of growth. It's actually just an extension of the way they train them before release, but it is a bit freaky.