ChatGPT: It can tell but does not know - TechTalks

Polanyi's paradox, named in honor of the philosopher and polymath Michael Polanyi, states that "we know more than we can tell."[1] He means that most of our knowledge is tacit and cannot be easily formalized with words.[2] In The Tacit Dimension, Polanyi gives the example of recognizing a face without being able to tell what facial features humans use to make such a distinction. The example describes Gestalt psychology which emerged in the early twentieth century as a theory of perception that rejected the basic principles of elementalist and structuralist psychology as well as functionalist and behavioralist theories of the mind. Gestalt theory emphasizes that conscious humans perceive entire patterns or configurations, not individual components, and cannot always explain what they know. Consider the ancient Chinese game Go, where nobody can define a good move.