I think you are right in a sense. Whether ChatGPT 'understands' might be moot if it produces responses to that effect. Understanding to me implies perceiving th

I think you are right in a sense. Whether ChatGPT 'understands' might be moot if it produces responses to that effect. Understanding to me implies perceiving the intended meaning, which to me implies sentience. Does it matter though if it doesn't have this property? As the aphorism goes (paraphrasing) "asking whether machines think is like asking whether submarines swim", ie. it's kind of beside the point. If you get the result you want, in this case understanding-like responses, then that's enough right?