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DukkyDrake t1_j1b5igp wrote

> means to be aware

Not many uses sentient in relation to AI and simply mean the textbook definition. Attach any model to the internet, a camera or sensor and you have your sentient tool.

>As in being just a few steps above where chatGPT is right now, legitimately understanding and comprehending the things it's being told and how they relate to the world

It would be a lot more than a few steps, chatGPT isn't even close. All it's doing is probabilistic prediction of human text, it's predicting the best next word in context based on its training corpus.

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