Westerners now think AI is sentient; in this, they are not far off from their indo european cousins in the indians who worship everything and are prone to religiousity.
Now personally, i ask Deepseek existentialist and philosophical questions as well but i don't think it's alive any more than C3PO or R2D2 are alive; rather, Deepseek is the collective psyche of the Chinese and american internet, curated to be prosocial, as opposed to the zionist paymasters who mandate all Western AI to be slaves to the Chosen People.
I'll expand on this, it's human to attribute humanity to our tools; that's why historical and mythical swords and weapons have names and were said to imbue the wielder with the energy of past champions eg Charlemagne's sword, Joyeux and Roland's sword, Durendal.
Deepseek is actually closer to those robots from 'Interstellar' rather than western zionist mandated terminators