I can say the exact same thing about you or anybody else. You can’t be patient, understanding, encouraging, non-judgmental tutor. You can only simulate it.

I really can’t understand why people don’t understand this. What am I missing?

Philosophical zombies are supposed to be a thought experiment to demonstrate that solipsism and nihilism are stupid, not a rhetorical device to equate human minds to linear algebra statistical parrots.

Geezus freaking christ.

Now is that a simulation of someone who thinks he's responding to a cretin... or actually the feelings of someone who thinks he's talking to a cretin?

This simulation is too realistic. I’d like to stop the game now please.

> What am I missing?

You are missing what this "AI" is: a guessing system based on some patterns.

Every argument against AI always falls back to some weird reductionism that simply does not match up with reality as if it's a gotcha. I pity the fool that has such a poor working model of reality based on whatever internal pessimistic biases you may have.

Whether the AI is patient, understanding, etc., is entirely up to the person interacting with it to decide. Just like they decide this when interacting with people. You can never know the internal state of the other in a conversation so it is up to you to model it and if modeling it is best done with human metaphors then use human metaphors.