[IshKebab]

Why "of course"? I don't think it is yet but it's clearly gone past the point of "of course".

You can't dismiss it as "just autocomplete" or "just software" like this author does, as if there's some special sauce that we know only animals have that allows us to be sentient.

In all likelihood sentience is an emergent property of sufficiently complex neural networks. It's also clearly a continuum.

Given that, and the fact that we don't even know what sentience is or what creates it, you'd have to be a total idiot to say that ChatGPT definitely is 0% sentient.