Letter: An educator’s view on artificial intelligence
Letter: An educator’s view on artificial intelligence
https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg26935780-700-an-educators-view-on-artificial-intelligence/
Publish Date: 2026-01-14 13:01:00
Source Domain: www.newscientist.com
- Richard Hind has observed the impact of advancing technologies in the further education sector since 2002 and considers AI as the most disruptive.
- Hind notes that large language models (LLMs) demonstrate advanced cognitive skills like analysis and evaluation but questions the depth of their “understanding.”
- Critics argue that LLM intelligence, based on pattern recognition from vast data, lacks a true grasp of information in the context of physical and emotional experiences.
- Until artificial neural networks can experience the world as humans do, their form of intelligence remains a powerful but artificial simulation of human intellect.
