If you want to convince yourself that they can infer intent despite the fundamental limitations of the systems literally not permitting it then you can be my guest.

Faking it is fine, sure, until it can’t fake it anymore. Leading the question towards the intended result is very much what I mean: we intrinsically want them to succeed so we prime them to reflect what we want to see.

This is literally no different than emulating anything intelligent or what we might call sentience, even emotions as I said up thread...