'Unsupervised reinforcement learning' is how these large models and systems ultimately will end up becoming sentient. We recently tried a similar approach on a toy problem in the computer vision sphere (https://encord.com/blog/we-employed-chatgpt-as-an-ml-enginee...) with pretty decent results.
When it attains sentience, will it wake up, sing dixie and finally defeat communist China and a Russia once and for all, and then finally proceed to grant Silicon Valley elites eternal life and then turn itself off ?