Counterpoint AI: Inside the black box - What AI is actually doing when it reasons?
Thursday, 28 May 2026 · St Catherine's College, 2 Park Rd, Crawley WA
When an AI gives you a fluid, useful answer, what's actually happening underneath?
Calling it "reasoning like a human" overstates what we can verify. Calling it "just statistical pattern matching" might understate what's happening inside models whose internals we can only partially interpret. The honest answer is that nobody fully knows yet.
Here's where it gets interesting. How much of human intuition is itself pattern recognition, dressed up as judgment? When a clinician spots something off in a scan within seconds, or a lawyer senses a weak argument before they can articulate why, what is actually going on? If we can't cleanly define the human version, how confident can we really be about what's missing from the machine version?
These questions sit at the centre of real decisions. Whether we let AI decide or only assist. Where liability lands when it gets things wrong. How regulators approach systems they don't yet fully understand.
Professor Michael Small (Director, UWA Data Institute) and Jeroen van Dalen (Founder, AITAI) will sit with these open questions and see where they lead. Expect curiosity and sharper questions rather than tidy conclusions.
Event Details
- Date
- Thursday, 28 May 2026
- Time
- 04:00 PM – 07:00 PM
- Location
- St Catherine's College, 2 Park Rd, Crawley WA
- Price
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$10.00 members
$30.00 non-members