[ps901]

I think one important prerequisite for sentience is grounding, i.e. the ability to store and retrieve information, e.g., the dialog state, knowledge of the world but also individual knowledge etc. Systems that don't learn and also aren't grounded cannot be sentient as they lack the possibility to reflect on things or themselves and past conversations.

[wlorenz65]

DeepMind's Gato is grounded in other modalities than just text.

Is DeepMind's Gato sentient, then?