The 3 things an AI must demonstrate to be considered sentient

A Google developer recently decided that one of the company's chatbots, a large language model (LLM) called LaMBDA, had become sentient. According to a report in the Washington Post, the developer identifies as a Christian and he believes that the machine has something akin to a soul -- that it's become sentient. As is always the case, the "is it alive?" We don't want to dunk on anyone here at Neural, but it's flat out dangerous to put these kinds of ideas in people's heads. The more we, as a society, pretend that we're "thiiiis close" to creating sentient machines, the easier it'll be for bad actors, big tech, and snake oil startups to manipulate us with false claims about machine learning systems.