Their computers are programmed to become sentient in the event that Larry and Sergey leave the planet for Mars.
From Google to neural networks to the Game of Life – Hannah Fry looks at the ideas and theories that explain how computers may become sentient in the future.
By the time I was sentient, in the nineteen-thirties, only my eccentric cousin Freeman was bearded, and even he shaved once a summer.
It is also eerily sentient, in the way that highly automated plants tend to be, with thousands of little baskets zooming about.
In her work, books have long been important conceptually and as a kind of raw material, "almost like bricks" as she describes them, though bricks that seem almost sentient in the postmodern way of text liberated from its author.
If there was anything sentient in the deep ocean, its main evidence for human existence would be the occasional appearance of strange rings of cylinders dangling down on long lines.
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Anyone concerned about the country's religious settlement, about the distribution of wealth, about its foreign relations, about the possibility of civil war — that is, almost anyone who was fully sentient in the fifteen-nineties — must have brooded about the state of the Queen's health, the threat of Spanish invasion, the clandestine presence of Jesuits, and other reasons for alarm.
As everyone who was sentient in the 1990s recalls, Clinton was impeached over his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky.
"Livin' in the Fridge", a parody of Aerosmith's "Livin' on the Edge" that discusses leftovers that have grown sentient in the refrigerator, was the last song to be recorded for the album.
