There Is No Spoon

Name: There Is No Spoon
Start: 2025-05-05T10:15:00.000Z
End: 2025-05-05T11:00:00.000Z
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany

Talk by Léonie Watson Part of Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf 2025

Düsseldorf, Germany

Description

Generative AI can feel astonishingly real, but like the spoon in The Matrix, it is nothing more than an illusion—patterns of probability masquerading as truth. Just like Neo had to bend his mind to see beyond the illusion, we must recognise that AI does not understand, reason, or perceive reality; it just generates plausible facsimiles.