No, they cannot further human understanding. They can only read and write existing text faster than you or I can. Something that acts like a parrot and demonst

No, they cannot further human understanding. They can only read and write existing text faster than you or I can. Something that acts like a parrot and demonstrates no intelligence cannot be used to learn about intelligence. The business model for ChatGPT should be obvious. It's stated at the bottom of every page. They will sell a conversational chat agent for use in customer service and tech support. That's useful and real and meets the Turing test criteria you're talking about.