Our mechanisms for AI are (it would almost seem intentionally) biased against sentience. Glorified pattern recognition systems, no memory. The only "online lear

Our mechanisms for AI are (it would almost seem intentionally) biased against sentience. Glorified pattern recognition systems, no memory. The only "online learning" is re-training to a sample. Sentient AI is a fun sci-fi idea, but economically, why bother with slaves when you can have glorified optic nerves that are good enough for everything you want. I think sentient AI is totally achievable with modern technology, there just is no incentive to make it happen and a lot of incentive to steer away from it. The "Turing Test" is just the latest in a history of bad ideas of "human-ness" that we see in practice isn't accurate. The other reason sentient AI is unlikely to happen is that our "criteria" for it will flee the capacity of machines to satisfy them.