That's just it, if you can't define it clearly, the question is meaningless.
The reason people will insist on ambiguous language here is because the moment you find a specific definition of what sentience is someone will quickly show machines doing it.
Now you're just howling what sounds like religious belief about the unstoppable and unassailable perfection of the treat printers like some kind of bad Warhammer 40k Adeptus Mechanicus LARPer. What you're saying is so banal and uninspired and cliche in that direction that it may well be where it started for you.
That's just it, if you can't define it clearly, the question is meaningless.
The reason people will insist on ambiguous language here is because the moment you find a specific definition of what sentience is someone will quickly show machines doing it.
Now you're just howling what sounds like religious belief about the unstoppable and unassailable perfection of the treat printers like some kind of bad Warhammer 40k Adeptus Mechanicus LARPer. What you're saying is so banal and uninspired and cliche in that direction that it may well be where it started for you.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09247