It doesn't understand anything. Yet if you prompt it with a question about what it understands, its output is consistent with something that understands. Text

It doesn't understand anything. Yet if you prompt it with a question about what it understands, its output is consistent with something that understands. Text in, text out. The question is how much a sequence of tokens captures what we think a mind is. "It" ceases to exist when we stop giving it a prompt, if "it" even exists. Whether you consider something "AI" says more about what you think a mind is than anything about the software.