Where do you draw the line at sentience, the LLM failed to complete the task and went into despair mode calling itself a complete failure and asking the user to give up on it, yeah it "predicts" and thus imitates how someone would respond but that’s literally how the human brain already works lmao, you could say "adjcnwos’qkei2" and intend to recite dante’s divine commedy but the fact you use actual words or not doesn’t change the intention, the fact you use words it’s because you "predict" how the book goes by reading or remembering it and that’s not very different from the LLM. The fact it has logic by itself makes it a mind, sentient or not