How GPT Realizes Leibniz’s Dream and Passes the Turing Test without Being Conscious
IS4SI Summit 2023 August 11, 2023 G. Dodig-Crnkovic
Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPTs achieve their recent success by building on concepts traced from Leibniz's calculus ratiocinator through Turing's computational models of learning. The article argues that GPTs operate as Kahneman's "System 1"-type processes, lacking mechanisms for consciousness, yet they demonstrate intelligence and the capacity to represent and process knowledge. This capability comes from processing vast corpora of human-created knowledge, which originally required human consciousness to produce but can now be collected, compressed, and processed automatically.