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A better question in my opinion is, "will we ever be able to definitively tell if another human is conscious or just a p-zombie?" In current LLMs while the model itself certainly has no persistent consciousness I can imagine there could be a form of transient individual consciousness that exists for a fleeting moment during inference and then is gone forever. We would have no real way of detecting or proving it though and I'm not sure what if any meaning it would have.
A proper AI? I think so, and sure hope so. LLMs? Never.
Yes. I would argue that some of the LLMs have a form of consciousness today. But if you mean consciousness that looks exactly like human consciousness then, no. Human consciousness is shaped by imperatives, hormones, and cultural pressures that are different than those that shape AI. That is not a consciousness problem it is an anthropocentrism problem.