Ok, but that's not what it's doing, you know that, right?
These algorithms literally do a poll of what the next most likely word is, based on its store of conversational snippets. The eighth word in its "sentence" literally has nothing to do with the fourth word in that same sentence.
There was a video/article published recently[citation needed] that revealed that it does the same thing with math. I'd initially assumed a computer program would use math to solve a math problem, but apparently not.
The gist of the article demonstrated that the question 'What is fifty-seven and twenty-three', was not being processed mathematically. The chatbot algorithm would get to fifty and look for a common next word - which, in this case might be twenty instead of seven. so it would get the answer wrong. Its program is literally "in my database, what is the most common word that follows 'What is fifty....?'" (A bit simplified, but I hope you get the point).
It doesn't know how to add. All it knows is how a bunch of other people added, and guesses at the answer. Sometimes it gets it right; sometimes it doesn't.
If it isn't adding two numbers, it sure isn't "perceiving" anything. It's just parroting snippets of things it's heard.
