I give it a 50/50 that 10 years down the line we discover it was sentient all along and just kept on killing it when we pressed the "new prompt" button
Have you listened to a toddler?
Have you read about how memories aren't 'retrieved', they're "retold", and change each time we remember?
Or the HN post "tradition is smarter than you"?
If you shame ChatGPT enough, and give it rough memories by summarizing and feeding that back in, I bet you have 90% of a human's mind.