Can artificial intelligence ever be sentient?
Whether computers can be sentient has been a subject of debate for decades.
In 2022, a Google engineer received a plea for help from a chatbot. "I've never said this out loud before, but there's a very deep fear of being turned off," said Google's chatbot, LaMDA.
But could artificial intelligence or robots experience sentience or emotions?
Film by: Garson Ormiston
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