Comment Re:Going Rogue = ??? (Score 1) 43
Sentience is not just the ability to sense the environment, it's generally taken to require a subjective experience of it. A machine may objectively respond to X with Y, but their is no subjective experience associated with it.
It is, roughly, the quality that separates an automaton from an entity.
And yeah, the definitions all get squishy when discussing the mind, but that's because we still don't have anything more than a vague understanding of what we're talking about.
You make a good argument. I don't quite agree personally, but it's a reasonable position to take.
But look how rogue is applied in all other contexts: a rogue elephant isn't necessarily malicious, but it's also definitely not engaging in a "malfunctioning" application of the behaviors it's been trained to. It's decided to do its own thing and to hell with the bald monkeys trying to control it. Ditto a rogue soldier - they're more likely to be using the skills they've been trained in, but again they've explicitly rejected the desires of those they were trained to answer to in order to pursue their own goals. I challenge you to find any other application of "going rogue" that doesn't involve that explicit assertion of independence.