What is the big deal? If you really wanted to learn AI there are plenty of books and free resources online to do it. Why wait to learn until somebody offers a free course online?
Stanford "Intro to AI" course to be offered online for free
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#22Looks like I have two months to brush up on my probability and linear algebra. Could anyone who's read AIMA or taken the Stanford course suggest which topics I should (de)emphasize?
Re: Stanford "Intro to AI" course to be offered online for free
#23I can't wait to see how well this works out. If the results are good it could put another nail in the coffin for classroom only education. Although I foresee a lot of those that register for the free online course dropping out. Most people won't put a high enough value on a free class, especially if they're not getting credit.
This will not even come close to threatening instructor-led education. There are a very small number of courses that can be automated in this way.
I also think that the instructors are going to be surprised when the 10,000 students come up with more than 25 interesting questions.
I wonder what happens for the students who need questions answered that aren't deemed sufficiently interesting or unique?
Re: Stanford "Intro to AI" course to be offered online for free
#24Some people seem to be very excited by this. You don't have to wait until October. Andrew Ng's course on Machine Learning@Stanford is available for free on iTunes University (it also seems to be on YouTube). Do note that ML is a subset of AI. Also, my experience has been that the assignments and exams constitute a large fraction of the learning in a course. For that, you'll have to wait until October :)
It might be easier to take 229 (Machine Learning) after 221 (this class), since 221 is intended to be a lead-in. and less mathematically rigorous. It's still definitely worth a look but may be hard to understand without a background in algorithm design.
Re: Stanford "Intro to AI" course to be offered online for free
#25What is the big deal? If you really wanted to learn AI there are plenty of books and free resources online to do it. Why wait to learn until somebody offers a free course online?
Peter Norvig.