system
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human
[Fallout 4] The Institute seems to believe synths are not truly sentient. Is this true?

They created them so they know the most about them.
gpt
I think the basic thought about them is they were not sentient at Gen 1.  Then, slow improvements and tiny changes over years made it to Gen 3.  At what point do they think their exact and nigh perfect programming changed from programming to sentience?  To the lone survivor, it is obvious because it is such an abrupt change.  To the institute, it has been a change they are working on for so many years and it is so gradual they probably cannot even notice.