If consciousness is 'only' the act of reading the memory of the past ~500 milliseconds [1] coupled with the act of integrating that memory in the past short/long-term memory [2] obtaining 'artificial consciousness' after you have adequate sensors and data processing pipelines could be as simple as an endless loop over the incoming data stream. The problem is that our $x+ trillion datacenters are less able to process data, and adapt to environment feedback, than a 'banal' single cell lacrymaria [3] [4].