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This is a really interesting experiment in remote and free education on a scale we haven’t seen before. If your are interested in AI, why not taking the class yourself?

If something really is changing the mindset on what academic educations can be in the future it is initiatives and experiments like this.

Stanford University has launched a new experiment in distributed education, offering a 101-level technology course free and online to to students worldwide this fall. The course, “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence,” will be taught by two leading thinkers in the AI field, Sebastian Thrun, a professor at Stanford, and Peter Norvig, director of research at Google.

At the time of this post, more than 130,000 people signed up fro the online course, scheduled to start on October 10th and last until December 16th. Of course, it’s unknown how many will follow through and register and attend. Details on the course, including a syllabus is available here. The curriculum draws from the same materials, assignments, and exams used in Stanford’s introductory Artificial Intelligence course.