Apparently, the Hadron collider is back in order soon and will resume operations. Will they find the so-called god-particle?

From what I got from information venues the guy was let go because of his conclusion that Google AI is sentient.

Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to read the whole article and I'm unaware of the details. But I do think that there should be the opportunity to hear the man out.

It has happened before in scientific history to outright dismiss positions that eventually turned out to be true.

Really science still has a lot to discover and realize, as well as correct. I feel that when quantum computing will be in full swing machine intelligence will have the capability of computing at a dizzying rate.

Effectively computer systems will be able to ask themselves 4 different alternatives at once, while a regular computer only can one at a time. This deepens its "intellectual" capacity, as machine learning will become accelerated and deeper.

Still, a human mind is composing a far greater number of operations simultaneously aside from simple reflections. Knowledge is infinite within an unlimited ocean of possibilities and probabilities.

He may be considering consciousness as more pervasive to include the artificial type. At a microcosmic and purely scientific level, an electron supposedly is aware of being observed, because it interacts with the observer.

However, as an inanimate object, it cannot be said to have awareness. It could be relative. Being sentient is very debatable. Humans are not sentient based on being core-selves powering a complex mechanism of intellect overridden by the life force. But rather, they are sentient on account of the buddhi organ primarily, a subtle material composite/complex. 

So they can be said to be sentient based on their ability of mental machinations. AI can do that much as well, if not well at this time, then in time.