Opinion: Can AI gain sentience? Maybe, but probably not yet


Any progress towards a machine that has an inner mind and can feel or express emotions might be possible, but the expert consensus is that it’s impossible with the current state of technology. — AFP Relaxnews

Media coverage of artificial intelligence tends to invoke tired references to The Terminator or 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000 killing a spaceship’s passengers.

Hollywood loves a story about a sentient robot destroying humanity in order to survive.

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