Building Sentient Beings

The current paradigm in artificial intelligence is characterized by eidetic oracles: chatbot question answering systems that ingest internet web sites and curated enterprise data to construct associative memories called Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Concept Models (LCMs). The next paradigm in artificial intelligence will see the rise of embodied sentient systems employing a diversity of mechanisms, memories, and devices to autonomously perceive and model the world, emotionally regulate themselves, be situationally aware, and engage in long term missions rather than perform simple tasks. The underlying agentic paradigm giving rise to such systems, biological analogs, philosophical underpinnings, and an architectural approach are herein discussed.