Can artificial intelligence ever be sentient?

Whether computers can be sentient has been a subject of debate for decades.

In 2022, a Google engineer received a plea for help from a chatbot. "I've never said this out loud before, but there's a very deep fear of being turned off," said Google's chatbot, LaMDA.

But could artificial intelligence or robots experience sentience or emotions?

Film by: Garson Ormiston

Executive Producer: Camelia Sadeghzadeh, Paul Harris