Raw LLM Responses

I hate to oversimplify, but youtube comments are what they are as a medium. This brilliant guy is basically saying in some cases that if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck and looks like a duck then it is a duck. This is his argument when claiming that a chatbot has a subjective experience and a few others but I'll just touch on the authentic subjective experience claim. My issue with that is another phrase, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. That inability to distinguish does not mean magic exists it means the observer is deficient in making the distinction. It's proof only of an observer problem, it isn't proof of the subject's attributes. My point is that our inability to measure beyond appearances does not mean that thing necessarily is what it appears to be and I argue it is more likely just proof of an observer problem. Yes a chatbot may output "I had this subjective experience" and that may look exactly like how a human would output the same thing, but that does not mean equivalence. Maybe equivalent, yes but not necessarily equivalent as it's just as easily explained that we as observers are simply unable to distinguish the difference that is there. But I'll leave the thought with this, for those a little familiar with computers. Take an AI and put it on a virtual machine, snapshot the state of that virtual machine and then clone copies of that snapshotted state. Place all the copies in identical environments turned on at identical times and then provided all identical inputs and you will find that all copies will produce identical outputs. This tells us that for all the complexity AI has, they are still fundamentally mechanical calculators. Can a calculator have subjective experience? Can a calculator be conscious?