{"id":178153,"date":"2026-01-14T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/letter-an-educators-view-on-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:05:09","slug":"letter-an-educators-view-on-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/letter-an-educators-view-on-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: An educator&#8217;s view on artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/letter\/mg26935780-700-an-educators-view-on-artificial-intelligence\/\">Letter: An educator&#8217;s view on artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/letter\/mg26935780-700-an-educators-view-on-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/letter\/mg26935780-700-an-educators-view-on-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-14 13:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newscientist.com\">www.newscientist.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard Hind has observed the impact of advancing technologies in the further education sector since 2002 and considers AI as the most disruptive.<\/li>\n<li>Hind notes that large language models (LLMs) demonstrate advanced cognitive skills like analysis and evaluation but questions the depth of their &#8220;understanding.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Until artificial neural networks can experience the world as humans do, their form of intelligence remains a powerful but artificial simulation of human intellect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter: An educator&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/21170206\/SEI_196882028.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,17],"class_list":["post-178153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-llm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178155,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178153\/revisions\/178155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}