Is sentient AI in our future?

Technology has been advancing faster than we can cope. With the evolution of Artificial Intelligence, arises all various formats of AI associated tools. Now we have the AI-driven conversation technology, LaMDA, which researchers will deliberate to assume that we may be approaching sentience pretty soon.

While it could appear that human-like AI responses may indicate sentience, it is important to realize the nature of language-based programs, LaMDA, is not near a level consciousness yet, although it speaks like a person does (as it is programmed that way).

There would have scientists and researchers talk that sentient AI might not be possible because we just don’t have the infrastructure to create it yet, and we don’t have the right understanding of what consciousness really is.

In order for an AI to truly sentient, it would need to be able to think, perceive and feel, rather than simply use language in a highly natural way. However, scientists are divided on the question of whether it is even feasible for an AI system to be able to achieve these characteristics.

Companies that are creating AI like Google, Microsoft, Apple, and many others do not currently have the goal to create sentient AI. They are more focused on the areas of artificial general intelligence (AGI), where a machine would solve a range of complex problems, and learn from it .

Nevertheless, the sentient AI will have to be the goal the future.

(https://simplilearn.com ; https://www.scientificamerican.com)

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machine do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

~ Marvin Minsky