Nothing to do with being sentient. I think it has to do with being able to teach itself arbitrary information, including how to learn better, and importantly recognize what it does and doesn't know. LLMs feel like a massive step towards that. It feels similar to a single "thought process". A "good / useful AGI" might have aspects such as: - Ability to coherently communicate with humans (hard to prove it's working wit…
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by metacognition, but I suspect you mean something that I think is critical - the ability to watch itself think. That is, humans can sense the surrounding world. (Some people call that sentience.) Humans can think about what they sense, organize it, categorize it, find patterns, think both inductively and deductively. (Some people call that sapience.) But humans can do something els…
That's pretty close to the way the term is normally used.
FWIW: