How to Use sentient in a Sentence

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• But on the inside is a sentient A.I. that seeks a host to bind to.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
• But maybe to be sentient is to be lonely and to have grief?
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
• The man notices the bush is sentient, gets spooked, and yells about the bush running away.
  — Vulture, 8 May 2023
• First, let’s dispense with the idea that the AI is somehow sentient.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• If a human would claim to be sentient, the model will too.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2022
• There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don’t choose to be a racist.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• And then there was the recent news about AI at Google being sentient.
  — Arun Shastri, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• These led him to ask if the software program is sentient.
  — Leonardo De Cosmo, Scientific American, 12 July 2022
• The Notebooks are the record of a sentient body and its experiences in the world; of a mind and its thoughts; and of the rich encounters of the two.
  — Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• Hall likened this approach to the creation of the sentient carpet in Aladdin.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2022
• The zany horror film is as self-aware as the sentient android at its center.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2023
• His addiction takes the form of a sentient cloud of smoke voiced, no kidding, by George C. Scott.
  — Vulture, 13 June 2023
• Of course, in the real world, with walls and furniture and sacks of sentient meat walking around, that may not quite line up.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 15 May 2023
• The trolls are sentient now thanks to the vermiscus goo in the mountain’s mine, which the Crone taught them to make into a magical elixir.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• The goal isn’t to replace physicians with sentient speakers.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 1 May 2018
• Discover that the budgeting app has been sentient this whole time and loves you back.
  — Kathryn Kvas, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2021
• With every gust of wind, the prayers printed on them are said to spread throughout the world for the benefit of all sentient beings.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 8 June 2023
• So of course there will be people who believe in A.I. being sentient.
  — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• Think of it like a sentient car manual, able to tell you anything about your car, explain the why, and give it a lot of nuance.
  — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
• One of the key questions here is whether insects are sentient and have the capacity to feel pain and suffer.
  — WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
• For reasons that are hard to pin down, Marge is burned on the consciousness of all who were alive and sentient and old enough to buy a ticket to an R movie in 1996.
  — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2020
• Why this added emphasis about the AI not being sentient?
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• Maeve made what appears to be her first sentient decision, opting to stay in the park to find her daughter.
  — Mehera Bonner, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Apr. 2018
• Basketball: Just make sure no one tries to play a game of hoops with your sentient basketball.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2024
• The actress lamented both — then brought up from nowhere the consequential rage of the sentient planet.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2017
• What if our worst nightmare comes true, and a sentient AI is given access to resources and a large network?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2022
• Software may not be sentient, but it is made by sentient beings.
  — Sajal Singh, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
• Because this is at its heart a sci-fi B-movie, the eclipse causes a green zap of alien sentient plant-life to arrive on earth, nestled among the zinnias.
  — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
• That, Lemoine said, was the secret — the reason top computer scientists were able to say that AI wasn’t sentient.
  — Josh Morgenthau, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
• Even if everything on the outside seems conscious, is AI on the inside actually sentient and aware?
  — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024