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"Reasoning and logic are one thing, but beyond that is true intelligence -- what we call sentience," Babak Hojat, cofounder and chief scientist at Sentient Technologies," tells EE Times.

"Sentience is being aware, having perceptions, being mindful, and has implications of autonomy,"

People who fear robots becoming more intelligent than us and killing us really haven't been able to effectively explain why they would want to.

Conflict over resources is one of the explanations I've heard but that doesn't make much sense. After all, intelligent robots could manufacture themselves to survive in environments that are well beyond what we can survive in. If they were that much more intelligent they would simply leave earth and open up the vast resources of the universe for themselves without the risk of a conflict.