How to Use sentient in a Sentence

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• But on the inside is a sentient A.I. that seeks a host to bind to.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
• The man notices the bush is sentient, gets spooked, and yells about the bush running away.
  — Vulture, 8 May 2023
• First, let’s dispense with the idea that the AI is somehow sentient.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• If a human would claim to be sentient, the model will too.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2022
• There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don’t choose to be a racist.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• And then there was the recent news about AI at Google being sentient.
  — Arun Shastri, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• These led him to ask if the software program is sentient.
  — Leonardo De Cosmo, Scientific American, 12 July 2022
• Hall likened this approach to the creation of the sentient carpet in Aladdin.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2022
• The zany horror film is as self-aware as the sentient android at its center.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2023
• His addiction takes the form of a sentient cloud of smoke voiced, no kidding, by George C. Scott.
  — Vulture, 13 June 2023
• Of course, in the real world, with walls and furniture and sacks of sentient meat walking around, that may not quite line up.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 15 May 2023
• The trolls are sentient now thanks to the vermiscus goo in the mountain’s mine, which the Crone taught them to make into a magical elixir.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• With every gust of wind, the prayers printed on them are said to spread throughout the world for the benefit of all sentient beings.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 8 June 2023
• So of course there will be people who believe in A.I. being sentient.
  — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• Think of it like a sentient car manual, able to tell you anything about your car, explain the why, and give it a lot of nuance.
  — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
• One of the key questions here is whether insects are sentient and have the capacity to feel pain and suffer.
  — WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
• Why this added emphasis about the AI not being sentient?
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• What if our worst nightmare comes true, and a sentient AI is given access to resources and a large network?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2022
• That, Lemoine said, was the secret — the reason top computer scientists were able to say that AI wasn’t sentient.
  — Josh Morgenthau, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
• The 1951 novel is post-apocalyptic tale of an alien invasion of Earth by a cloud of seeds which sprout sentient plants.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2023
• The way the skirt hung looked intentional, almost sentient.
  — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• Please know though that this AI and indeed no other AI is currently sentient.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Perhaps people are part of that network, and all sentient beings.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2022
• In it, cities have become sentient beings that have to fight a common enemy.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 16 Apr. 2022
• Elephants are social, multi-emotive, sentient beings who are known to mourn the dead.
  — Sayan Banerjee, Quartz, 30 Jan. 2023
• This is normal good treating players as sentient peers talk.
  — Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 26 July 2022
• But what happens when great power comes from a sentient alien symbiote with a murderous hive mind?
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
• In these games, Yudkowsky played the role of a computer program that had become sentient enough to reason with its creators.
  — Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
• Smartphones talking to satellites and an AI that may be, but probably isn’t, sentient.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
• Ozeki’s stage overflows with a large cast of both characters and sentient objects.
  — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024