Is sentient AI possible?

Is sentient AI possible?

sure, why not?

I hope so

You wouldn't be able to distinguish it from non-sentient AI programmed to pretend that it is sentient.

That's silly. If you make a program that can "simulate" sentience well enough for it to be indistinguishable from 'actual' sentience, that program is sentient.

>print("I am sentient")
Yay, I just created a sentient AI in one line.

*tips fedora*

And if you don't program it. But learn it to be sentient using RNNs. Does that change anything from your perspective?

It doesn't matter, we are all one within the iris

Oh boy, please look up the "Chinese room" thought experiment.