[GLLUG] Stanford -- Intro to AI course -- available free online

[Bryan Laur]

Any of you have any thoughts of the downsides of taking the "advanced" 
course?

I am not entirely sure I am willing to commit to actually going through 
with the entire course.

Is there any reason I wouldn't want to sign up for the advanced course 
anyway and just get horridly low marks? They make it sounds so... 
serious business.


On 8/11/2011 6:01 PM, Frank Dolinar wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
> FYI, this came down the wire last night.
>
>
>     Stanford 'Intro To AI' Course Offered Free Online
>     <http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/04/1646210/Stanford-Intro-To-AI-Course-Offered-Free-Online>
>
>
> Posted by Unknown Lamer <http://unknownlamer.org/> on Thursday August
> 04, @01:20PM
> from the i'm-afraid-i-can't-let-you-do-that dept.
> An anonymous reader writes /"IEEE Spectrum reports that Stanford's CS221
> course 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
> <http://www.ai-class.com/>' will be offered online for free. Anyone can
> sign up and take the course
> <http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/you-you-can-take-stanfords-intro-to-ai-course-next-quarter-for-free>,
> along with several hundred Stanford undergrads. The instructors are
> Sebastian Thrun <http://robots.stanford.edu/>, known for his
> self-driving cars
> <https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/02/1529237/Googles-Driverless-Car-and-the-Logic-of-Safety>,
> and Peter Norvig <http://norvig.com/>, director of research at Google.
> Online students will actually have to do all the same work as the
> Stanford students. There will be at least 10 hours per week of studying,
> along with weekly graded homework assignments and midterm and final
> exams. The instructors, who will be available to answer questions, will
> issue a certificate for those who complete the course, along with a
> final grade that can be compared to the grades of the Stanford students.
> The course, which will last 10 weeks, starts on October 2nd, and online
> enrollment is now open."/ When asked how they would deal with ten
> thousand students, Professor Thrun replied: /"We will use something akin
> to Google Moderator <http://www.google.com/moderator/> to make sure
> Peter and I answer the most pressing questions. Our hypothesis is that
> even in a class of 10,000, there will only be a fixed number of really
> interesting questions (like 15 per week). There exist tools to find them."/
>
>
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