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Friday 14 November 2025, 7pm - 8pm

Bookable Room 1: Union House

From the Turing test onwards, AI has been designed not to think, but to imitate thinking. We'll trace how a fundamental misreading of Turing's "imitation game" led to 70 years of increasingly sophisticated copycats—from rule-following chatbots to today's "stochastic parrots" like ChatGPT. We'll explore why LLMs hallucinate and what happens when society mistakes computational mimicry for genuine understanding. Is this imitation paradigm enough—or will AI forever remain a very convincing fake?