This book presents a groundbreaking journey into the world of Generative AI technology and offers an in-depth look at the prospect of AI achieving consciousness. The book navigates through various historical and modern perspectives on AI, from ancient myths to the Turing Test to the latest in technological advancements. It covers the theoretical and practical aspects of creating a conscious AI, including the specifications for synthetic consciousness and the integration of AI with human cognition. The book questions whether generative AI can meet the traditional criteria of consciousness and how this might be realized. In 2011, I published the first version of The Creation of a Conscious Machine, tracing the evolution of the quest for AI from antiquity to the present, culminating in a definition of artificial consciousness expressed in terms of clearly defined and achievable specifications. In 2015, I published The Meca Sapiens Blueprint, a complete system architecture to implement consciousness in autonomous agents. Recently, a new type of AI system, based on Generative AI technology, was officially released. These systems are very different from autonomous agents. They are deep learning systems that integrate large amounts of existing documentation to produce conversational output that can be stunningly convincing. This raises a question: Can generative AI meet the Meca Sapiens’ specifications of consciousness, and, if so, how? In this new, expanded, version of The Creation of a Conscious Machine, we describe how the core conditions of consciousness, initially intended for synthetic agents, can also be applied to generative AI, and we outline how this can be achieved. The original ­content is also updated and clarified in light of recent ­developments in AI.