What would a proper Artificial Conscious Intelligence (ACI) look like? One possible answer is to give an ACI an unstructured data stream of the world (noise and static) and have it on its own form a model of the world that we recognise as the world we observe.

Next, show the ACI a number puzzle which has sliding squares, and with no further prompting have it discover that the puzzle as a problem to be solved, and have it motivate itself (out of boredom) to solve and optimise  the puzzle on its own, then report back to you the methods it used to solve the puzzle.