Why do people so desperately want to believe AI as sentient? I'd be glad if we can make chatting AI that's totally convincing as a person no matter what you throw at it, it'll provide great conversation and a platform to communicate with, coz after all that's the goal, but to think that coherent words prove sentience is really absurd, especially when you feed it specific data to train it in the first place.<br><br>We don't look for proof that a human is sentient, we just know them for a fact as humans and treat them as such. Same for AI, if it's designed &amp; intended to talk really well we should look forward to achieving that but it doesn't express anything beyond that. Our bodies are machines too and we largely communicate through words so it's not surprising. They're modelled after us, but a perfect model doesn't equate a perfect copy.