How to Use sentience in a Sentence

sentience

noun

• The sentience bill has had its second reading in the House of Lords.
  — Washington Post, 4 July 2021
• But Google is not the only one that pushed back on Lemoine's tale of sentience.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 13 June 2022
• And the kid, who clearly hasn't reached sentience yet, doesn't know that Maeve used to fill that role.
  — refinery29.com, 28 May 2018
• Blake Lemoine maintains that the bot has achieved sentience.
  — Longreads, 29 Dec. 2022
• There is a lot of angst about the meaning of sentience and the meaning of consciousness.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Buckle up for a quick and dirty history of the ethics of sentience.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 Oct. 2020
• On the sentience front, this still qualified as a ways off.
  — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2017
• This is sure proof that AI is sentient or on the verge of sentience, some proclaimed.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• Realize that this is not a result of any sentience by the AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• Some get confused by the powers of these models and make claims such as sentience.
  — Arun Shastri, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• Unless the Abbatars gain sentience, then all bets are off.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
• And some people even think that an AI has attained sentience.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2022
• Do the cats gain some higher sentience that allows them to walk upright, freed from the chains of walking on all fours?
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• Please do not allow yourself to be taken in by the aura of sentience.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• The answer is that the man is a sideshow, a creature, a living, breathing waste-dump of sports-takes thinking that gained sentience.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2023
• From where does our robust self-awareness and sentience arise?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2020
• Why has such sentience been attributed to the groundhog?
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2018
• This new research, though, is more focused on the exhibition of sentience seen in brain cells in a dish.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Oct. 2022
• There are many membership levels in the sentience club.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2023
• On HBO’s Westworld, female androids gain sentience and aim their guns at the humans who abused them.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 May 2018
• The machines then gained sentience and destroyed every living thing in their wake.
  — Bob Vulfov, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
• She is obsessed with her dog, advice columns, and plant sentience.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2021
• All his flannels gained sentience and hacked into my laptop to blackmail me.
  — Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021
• But wait for a second, remember that the AI of today does not have sentience and does not have legal personhood.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
• This summer, Google fired one of its engineers who had become convinced that one of its chatbots had reached sentience.
  — Time, 5 Dec. 2022
• Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom believes AI has already started to show small amounts of sentience.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
• All that’s left are robots, which have sentience and act almost like people, and cute but voracious creatures called Zurks.
  — Gieson Cacho, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Nonetheless, the episode does raise thorny questions about what would qualify as sentience.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 30 June 2022
• All in all, the crucial takeaway is to not associate today’s generative AI with sentience.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• My view is that sentience, or the ability to suffer, would be a sufficient condition, but not a necessary condition, for an AI system to have moral status.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 2 May 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024