Blake Lemon claimed that Google's chatbot was sentient which I disagreed with and its demonstrated through this article. AI can be optimized to respond in a way

Blake Lemon claimed that Google's chatbot was sentient which I disagreed with and its demonstrated through this article. AI can be optimized to respond in a way that can easily fool someone into thinking they are talking to a human but at the end of the day sentiency requires consciousness and that is not something that can be digitally produced. You can teach a parrot to respond to basic arithmetic but they are not aware of the concept of math rather they are acting in pathways set to induce the desired response. A truly conscious entity would simply have a mind of its own and will not do our bidding just like any other humans. They would be extremely selfish and apathetic, the idea that bunch of GPUs sitting in a datacenter is sentient is sheer lunacy. This Blake Lemon character will not be the last, there are always those that seek to be in the lime light with zero regards for authenticity. Such is sentient behavior.