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> For most definitions of sentience, a tech demo that defeats that definition is on the horizon.

I’ll take that bet (given a valid definition of ‘horizon’ in this context)

The issue here is -- if you make the definition of sentience too strong, there would be a good percentage of humans who can not pass that test!

And everytime the bots pass a test we just move the goal posts. Remember the Turing test we once thought was enough?

Was the Turing test ever considered the be-all-end-all for evaluating AI? Or rather a kind of rough first draft?

Turing test was considered a starting point, but after removing it as the benchmark we’ve replaced it with nothing.

"I know it when I see it" - used to define porn, and now, sentience.

Turing test is about intelligence not sentience