> LLMs are not the machines I am referring to, machine sentience, if achieved, will require a "state" and the ability to analyze, act on, and update it. LLMs are a small piece of what that machinery could look like but they are not really complex enough to get where we want to go on their own.

Yes. Which is why there are "agentic" systems where LLMs can talk to each other and to various Internet assets. They can also keep state of their own.

The next step is multi-agent systems which self-organize into something that looks rather like a company. Those are the ones that run all night, expensively, and prove hard theorems or find bugs in major software.