Sentient AI

Reading the interview with the so-called sentient AI, I found myself intrigued, but moved quickly to boredom -- it felt like listening to a reasonably smart undergraduate embellishing and lying to get into some program or job. Which seems to me reflective of the world view of the programmers.

Why wouldn't a sentient AI speak and write English like an immigrant from Taiwan or Shakespeare? It suggests to me they haven't developed any thoughts or language of their own, but rather are just mimicking their programmers.