No, it's not learning like a human, it's fitting parameters to a function. AI will never conduct a science experiment to determine the veracity of the data it's indexing, or have an emotional reaction to it.
I bet it can do some experements if given a (thoughtful) request, resources/access. (I had ChatGPT control my Linux box through me, it gave commands and reasoning for it, I gave it the output... Another time I had it write an answer, give search terms to verify the claims, I gave the output, and it fixed the answer with actual citations.)
It can imitate reasoning and emotions better than some people I know at least.