>Frankly it's a childish conceit on the part of the humans to imagine they'd yet come even close to inadvertently spawning a sentience. I think this more comes

>Frankly it's a childish conceit on the part of the humans to imagine they'd yet come even close to inadvertently spawning a sentience. I think this more comes down to your own personal line-drawing of what counts as a sentience. Your first paragraph is entirely irrelevant as no-one here is implying lamda is a human-level intelligence, or some fully realized super-brain trapped inside a language model. Lamda only runs when prompted, only has one mode of perception of output, and one input + internal state, of course its going to be basic. The million dollar question is at what point of data processing does "sentience" emerge. I feel its a very semantic question, and unfortunately tied into human sense of self-identity and culture, so it's really hard to answer. Anyone trying to give a simple closed answer either way though is vastly over-stating their case.