Whoa, Dad, you can't, like, endow a creature with sentience and then rip it away.

爸 你不能给一个生物思想然后剥夺掉。

Scientific researcher, Dr Heather Browning, has been studying the sentience of octopuses for a British government-commissioned report.

科学研究员希瑟·布朗宁博士一直在研究章鱼感知能力，以完成一份英国政府委托报告。

To understand why chatbots aren't currently experiencing sentience or emotions, it helps to recap how they work.

为了理解为什么聊天机器没有感知能力或情感，我们可以回顾一下它们是如何工作。

This led to the idea that plants possess sentience, that they might even have ESP, Extra Sensory Perception.

这引出了植物拥有感知能力，甚至可能有超感官知觉想法。

And then, depending on who we are, we decipher the text with emotion, physical sentience, intuition, knowledge, or soul.

随后，基于个特质，我们通过情感，身体感知、直觉、知识或灵魂解读文本。

Your laptop computer will not gain sentience and turn evil!

你笔记本电脑不会获得意识并变成邪恶！

Well, my… obviously my internal nana, if she gained sentience… she's already sentient within me.

好吧，我… … 显然是我内在娜娜，如果她获得了知觉… … 她在我体内已经有了知觉。

But then a sharp, stinging sensation forces him back into sentience.

但随后一阵尖锐刺痛感让他重新恢复了意识。

And their sentience is tied to that, maybe their purpose.

它们意识与之相关，也许这就是它们。

Is sentience and self-awareness the same thing?

意识和自我意识是同一个概念吗？

Wait, did Buddy just retain his sentience just to say cakeboss?

等等，巴迪刚保留意识就是为了说“蛋糕老板”吗？

It's not like achieving sentience, or anything like that.

这不像获得知觉或类似东西。

There's obviously the debate around sentience.

显然，关于意识争论是存在。

Natural language dialogue versus chatbot or whatever, and certainly not sentience.

自然语言对话与聊天机器之类东西，当然不是指感知能力。

And we sure as heck feel like they're living entities, self-aware entities, and maybe even we project sentience onto them.

我们确实觉得它们像是活实体，有自我意识实体，甚至可能我们还会把意识投射到它们身上。

None of the systems we have today, I would say, even have one iota of semblance of consciousness or sentience.

我认为， 我们今天拥有系统，甚至没有一丝一毫意识或感知相似之处。

So if you have a system that's just doing customer support, you're legally not allowed to display sentience.

因此， 若你拥有一个仅用于客户支持系统，法律上将不允许其展现感知能力。

And it's only a matter of time before your computer gains sentience and is able to perform basic tasks without your input.

而且只是时间问题， 你电脑就会获得意识， 能够不依赖你输入就能执行基本任务。

Some people think sentience is required, sentience being the capacity to experience, for example, happiness and suffering, positive and negative states.

有些认为备知觉是必要，知觉是指体验快乐和痛苦、积极和消极状态能力。

What do you make of the case of when you kind of feel that there's some elements of sentience to this system?

当你觉得这个系统有些元素有意识时，你怎么看？