That is a good point. I thought of that too. The only way to prove it's not a hoax is to time it, like you said. I do think GPT-3 can allow us to potentially l

That is a good point. I thought of that too. The only way to prove it's not a hoax is to time it, like you said. I do think GPT-3 can allow us to potentially learn about human ideas, just because it's a statistical model built from 200TB of text input written by humans. So even knowing there's no 'consciousness' there it would still be interesting to see how well it could be trained to answer questions...like a kind of statistical "database query" over that 200TB of human text.