I agree. Chalmers points out that consciousness doesn’t require human-level intelligence and may be a much lower bar, especially if consciousness exists as a spectrum or along multiple dimensions. If you’re willing to admit the possibility that there’s something that it’s like to be a bat, or a dog, or a fish, then it seems plausible that there could be something that it is like to be a large language model with the ability to genuinely understand language beyond a surface level. Chalmers seems to think we are getting close to that point, even if e.g. Lamda isn’t quite there yet.

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Chalmers’ talk was at a very high level and geared towards an audience that is completely clueless about philosophy of mind, but he did talk quite a bit about what would constitute evidence for consciousness. He just doesn’t see strong evidence in existing systems.