Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence: What Do I Already Know About This?From Turing’s question to the machine that writes for youSeries 'In Twelve Evenings' Book 19Vita HarwoodTest your knowledge!Why can a chatbot sound completely confident when it is wrong? How did Alan Turing’s question about thinking machines lead to neural networks, large language models, and systems that can write, draw, and recognize faces? This short course explains artificial intelligence through its mechanisms, not through headlines.Across twelve evenings, readers move from early rule-based AI to machine learning, perceptrons, backpropagation, ImageNet, computer vision, tokens, transformers, generative models, and today’s debates about responsibility. The course also examines hallucinations, bias in data, deepfakes, black-box decisions, the changing world of work, and the open questions shaping AI’s future.