"That sounds pretty confident considering we don't even know how sentience works or appears"
This works better the other way, no?
- "The code has become sentient!”
-- "Define sentient..."
sound of crickets
Edit: Actually, I suppose it wouldn't be the sound of crickets, but the sound of a thousand idiots regurgitating the last YouTube video they watched on the subject, but the informational content is the same.
That sounds pretty confident considering we don't even know how sentience works or emerges.
Aside from that I agree this specific story isn't particularly interesting, though. The media hyped it up to an insane degree.