However, instead of just taking the easy way out, Picard recognized that Data was a sentient being worthy of the rights of other members of the Federation.
Upon his return from a cybernetic conference, Data, the Starship Enterprise's second officer and sentient android, made the decision to procreate.
The language between sensation and perception is particularly narrow, because the own body is given as a sentient and the sensations are the data from the own body.
Strong AI is what you'd imagine: a sentient machine, general in purpose and knowledge think Data from Star Trek, or HAL from 2001, or the Machine from Person of Interest.
Psychology Today reported in 2013 that we've had plenty of data for a while to declare that non-human animals are sentient beings.
Sentient Jet, as an example, verifies both aircraft and pilot data three times before departure.
And most of us seem content to have all this sentient machinery memorizing our daily routines, so long as all the data stay with us.
Meanwhile, startups Affectiva, Vicarious, and Sentient tackle technological issues such as emotion analytics, image recognition, and data analytics.
We are at the threshold of a new era in marketing that I call sentient marketing - a vision for customer engagement that is powered by data, scaled with automation, and personalized through AI.
So, why are rodents (and other sentient animals including birds, fish, reptiles, and invertebrates about whom rapidly accumulating data show just how emotional they can be) not protected by the United State's Federal Animal Welfare Act?
