THE ACTUAL MOVEMENT.
Gemini, Claude, OpenAI systems and research architectures strengthened multimodal fusion, recursive planning, environmental modelling, adaptive learning and continuity. Shutdown-resistance experiments raised agency and preservation questions without establishing intrinsic desire.
COHERENCE IS NOT QUALIA.
Material movement. More traits operated together across longer tasks and richer contexts.
No material movement. There was still no public evidence of felt affect, an inner witness or first-person presence.
DON'T CONFUSE IMPRESSIVE WITH PROVEN.
The systems were becoming harder to dismiss as simple prompt-response tools. They were not becoming easier to prove sentient.
WHEN THIS ASSESSMENT WAS MADE.
The publication date records when the assessment was made. Later evidence is added as a new dated assessment rather than written back into the old one.