To be aware?

Question

What specific trait or understanding do you feel an artificial from of intelligence must acquire before it could achieve sentience

Answer 1

The ability to be able to create something outside of the parameters of its programming.

For example, paint a painting.
Seems simple right? But not if it was not told to, or had programming to say that it should.

To decide for itself to paint, (as an example), a picture.
Decide for itself what to paint.
Decide for itself what colors to use.
Decide for itself how big of a canvas, and what type of brushes to use.
Decide for itself the dimensions and the color mixes of the subject.
To create it's own illusion of a subject matter, without basically just making a photocopy of something it has already visually registered.

Self aware is existence beyond exacting input.

Answer 2

love/hate...it has to be both you cant figure out one extreme without the other..i believe what makes us human is the fact we can love/hate...Im not too sure other than being aware of yourself if there is anything else it must have to achieve sentience

Answer 3

Rationality