This is a very interesting subject, I had to google sentience to see what the cultural consensus is regarding the understanding of this word and at first glance it seems to be related to feelings and subjective perception.

At this point, a digital perception is something we view as quite objective, but I read that algorithms will inherit some of the biases of the creators, thus making them not so objectiv. But I don't believe this will give way to digital subjectivity. Its a really hard topic.

Maybe when human intelligence merges with artificial intelligence, computers will be able to understand something in human nature that can be replicated as sentience?

Regardless, the future is veru interesting, hopefully in a positive way :)