Are Large Language Models Formalized Intuition?
Recently I've had the idea that what Large Language Models (LLMs) do is essentially a computational approach towards what psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung called intuition. I told ChatGPT about this idea, and a conversation ensued which resulted in the following article. Intuition is commonly defined as an unconscious, feeling-like apprehension of relationships. It enables humans to make quick judgments based on experience without consciously tracing every intermediate step. In cognitive psychology, it corresponds to what Daniel Kahneman calls “System 1”: a mode of thinking that is automatic, associative, and experience-based. Intuition as Implicit Pattern Recognition Intuitive decisions are not the product of some mystical instinct but rather the condensation of experience into implicit knowledge. Humans recognize patterns and probabilities without formulating them explicitly. These implicit representations arise through repeated perception and emotional evaluation of situ...