Are We Near Sentient AI? - IoT Times

Recently, a former Google researcher claimed that some algorithms used by the company reached sentient capabilities well above their initial design. Phillipa Louvois rules that Data, the Enterprise's android, is not the property of Starfleet, arguing: "We have all been dancing around the basic issue: does Data have a soul? I don't know that he has. I don't know that I have. But I have got to give him the freedom to explore that question himself."