I dont really feel like arguing my point of view on this today. This a subject that comes up quite often here and r/con. It was entertaining reading all the comments in r/con today bout this article from people who have never taken a basic programming class, let alone opened a page to read about neural nets.

If were gonna argue that these computers arent capable of being sentient, then we have to accept that bacteria, ants, any lesser lifeform is not really "living" then.

Again ill point out, I am a big fan of panpsychism. That the nature of the universe is what allows organic machines, or silicon machines for that matter, to become aware of itself. It's silly to think that humans are somehow a one off special circumstance.