Can you test for quality or subjective experience? I don't think you can. We can make inferences for living things based on observing the nervous systems, especially those similar enough to ours like vertebrates and especially mammals.

But for other things? What does it feel like to be a nematode? Or a starfish with no central nervous system?

I mean, epistemologically, you can only know that you're having subjective experience.

Even the Eliza chatbot from 1964 helped some people therapeutically. The "personhood" of the AI doesn't matter in this case as long as it's more beneficial than harmful. I think of it as 'interactive journaling', in OPs case.

I'm surprised that it actually understood the context of the question and followed it all the way through. My only experience with GPT-3 was AI dungeon, and it would always go off on tangents.

Well if I remember correctly (spoiler):

>!The ASI Johnny Depp turned into nanoparticles and "healed" the world of climate change, then went dormant while dispersed throughout the world. It seemed like there was more to the story where he'd help humanity in more ways later on.!<

But they returned to monke. Sounds pretty utopian to me!