{"id":256041,"date":"2026-05-26T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/an-introduction-to-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:40:15","slug":"an-introduction-to-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/an-introduction-to-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"An introduction to artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenakedscientists.com\/articles\/interviews\/introduction-artificial-intelligence\">An introduction to artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenakedscientists.com\/articles\/interviews\/introduction-artificial-intelligence\">https:\/\/www.thenakedscientists.com\/articles\/interviews\/introduction-artificial-intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 13:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thenakedscientists.com\">www.thenakedscientists.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emerging-market stocks have been doing incredibly well lately, with the artificial intelligence boom pushing equities in Asia to record highs. But lots of people &#8211; including Pope Leo and some tech leaders &#8211; are less happy, and are calling for stricter regulation of the AI sector to protect jobs and privacy. So let\u2019s first hear what two experts themselves think. Zoe Kleinman is the BBC\u2019s technology editor, and Mike Wooldridge is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford who has devoted his research career to the subject of AI. They have been speaking with Chris Smith&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mike &#8211; AI is about getting machines to do things that currently require human or animal brains, or potentially nervous systems, or potentially human bodies. And one of the weird things about AI is that lots of things that we find very, very difficult, AI has been very good at for a long time. Like, so playing grandmaster level chess, computers have been able to do that now for 30 years, and yet most people find that a very demanding challenge. Whereas some things that we find basically trivial, like riding a bicycle, driving a car, turn out to be phenomenally hard for AI. So, AI is about pushing back the frontiers of what machines can do. And the current approach, which has turned out to work extraordinarily well, I think much better than many people expected, is that if you start with a huge amount of data, in particular, for example, textual data, just ordinary written text, just the kind of stuff that you can pull off social media or the World Wide Web, and you train an AI model on huge, huge quantities of that, it turns out to be rather good at being able to, for example, summarise text, answer questions about text, and so on. And so that&#8217;s what&#8217;s led to the current AI boom, which is around large language models like ChatGPT. And the thing that turned out to work extremely well after 70 years is to throw incredible amounts of data at the problem. And to process all of that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenakedscientists.com\/articles\/interviews\/introduction-artificial-intelligence\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An introduction to artificial intelligence https:\/\/www.thenakedscientists.com\/articles\/interviews\/introduction-artificial-intelligence Publish Date: 2026-05-26 13:22:00 Source Domain: www.thenakedscientists.com Emerging-market stocks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thenakedscientists.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social-media-large\/public\/media\/media\/gd0a45cc306a5d0cf9cf180059f4a94c711dc55a5f05f9787ce48f556f7a666813b774d080dec1b2844e1856b8272e04084e4ed643d586bc520cd16c9031b811f_1280.jpg?itok=LcxkHL18","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256043,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256041\/revisions\/256043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}