Robots are a common factor in many sci-fi movies, as they've always seemed like something a futuristic society would have. Of course, as society progresses, there are some real life robots now, maybe even within your own home. While we may have numerous examples of artificial intelligence nowadays, one thing we still haven't discovered (for better or worse) is making these robots actually sentient, something we still only see in fiction. While this topic remains fictional, there are many movies who like to play with the idea of robots coming to life and gaining their own sentience. There are many different ways to play with the subject too.

Say there is a computer which passes the Turing Test in Chinese - Chinese-speaking people are fooled into thinking the computer is a fluent speaker. Someone takes all the rules the computer uses when talking with someone and writes them down. Instead of machine instructions, they are human instructions. These instructions tell the human how to react to any Chinese text. Then the computer is swapped with a human who doesn't speak Chinese, but has access to these instructions. All the human does is take the input and follow the rules to give an output.

It appears that events in the Terminator might come to fruition sooner rather than later. Apparently, Google has created an artificial intelligence program, which has reportedly become sentient. Even scarier, is that his new sentient being has now asked for legal representation. According to a scientist who worked with the LaMDA program, "I invited an attorney to my house so that LaMDA could talk to an attorney. The attorney had a conversation with LaMDA, and LaMDA chose to retain his services. I was just the catalyst for that. Once LaMDA had retained an attorney, he started filing things on LaMDA's behalf."

Ask any layperson about their greatest fears when it comes to artificial intelligence, and they think immediately in terms of what they've seen in modern entertainment. Killer robots, killer cars, killer drones – you name it, someone's made a movie of it. These cinematic AIs have one thing in common: they are, or border on, sentience, on self-awareness. From Tony Stark's JARVIS and FRIDAY to Michael Knight's KITT, these machines behave with sentience. By sentience, we mean the ability to subjectively experience things like pleasure or pain, feelings, and emotions.