Does that razor let you say anything at all about intelligence or consciousness, given that neither has a rigid, formal, or universal definition?
If the metric is 'see, it does the thing,' then a model which demonstrates thought would not be pretending to think.
... and this wasn't made by accident, it was deliberately engineered to develop emergent behavior. Quite a lot of money has been spent hiring a variety of experts to make it do this thing.
Hasn't worked. Almost certainly will never work, with this particular kind of network. But we would not have known that, just by looking at diagrams and going 'naaahhh.'
Does a calculator simulate math?
Right, because nothing important in life is ambiguous or approximate.