Interesting things are afoot.
https://9to5google.com/2022/06/12/go...-sentient/amp/
Seems to me like having ?human-like? response built into the programming could be driving the responses, but how could we ever really know? It?s experience of emotion may be something beyond what we can comprehend as humans.
What are the ethics of experimenting on something that is possibly sentient?
I wonder what sort of archaic legislation will be drawn up as AI approaches sentience.