[oldgradstudent]

> I'm not even sure it doesn't qualify as sentient, at least for the few brief moments of the chat

You need your head checked.

Give it a short story and ask it a question which is not 100% explicit in the text.

For example, give it Arthur C. Clarke's Food of the Gods and ask it was is Ambrosia in the story.

Is a language model, and it behaves like a language model. It doesn't think. It's doesn't understand.

[falcor84]

Wow, how the goalposts have moved.

[oldgradstudent]

It's a magnificent achievement. But it simply does not do what it is hyped to do.

[westoncb]

I haven't tried with Bing, but this kinda thing is super basic with ChatGPT at least: it can do what you're asking and far more.