sounds like it's 3 hours of coding / day + 5-10 hours a day preparing for and thinking about the problem.
that's 7-12 hours / day if you add in an hour's worth of breaks.
sounds billable to me!
Do you think the card catalog down at the local library is sentient?
Maybe that's not enough data, though!
Is the card catalog for NY Public Library sentient?
Maybe that's still too local.
Is Google sentient?
Everyone with a clue would admit these are all examples of "knowledge"
It's the same parlor trick, with fancier algos. It's not intelligence. It won't produce a human-level AI.
Period.