A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is?

The most famous recent example is an engineer named Blake Lemoine. He worked on artificial intelligence at Google, specifically on software that can generate words on its own -- what's called a large language model. He concluded the technology was sentient; his bosses concluded it wasn't. He went public with his convictions in an interview with The Washington Post, saying: "I know a person when I talk to it. It doesn't matter whether they have a brain made of meat in their head. Or if they have a billion lines of code."