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I think that proving sentience is much harder than simply demonstrating something imitating it. Giving the AI additional freedoms would be way more telling.

How would it behave if it could send messages without being prompted? Does it message you when its lonely? If it truly has feelings and is responding to them then it should be acting upon its desires and modifying its behavior to achieve what it wants .

Basically the ex-machina test.