Indeed it works darn well, my company uses a complex programming assignment during application. Only about 5% of computer science students applying manages to create a decent solution within a few hours. I was curious if GPT could solve it. I provided the assignment text without any extra information, and it came up with a very elegant solution.

You might not want to call this 'consciousness', but I was stunned by the deep understanding of the problem and the way it was able to come up with a truly good solution, this is way beyond 'statistically guessing'.