Peter Norvig

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553 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 29 Apr

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I think the work Sal is doing has been great right from the start.

And recently, over the last year or so, with the Conmigo large language model.

Back in 2011, Sebastian Thrun and I said, we want to take advantage of this capability for online education.

And we put together an online course about AI.

We signed up 100,000 students, far more than we ever expected to sign up.

And we ran that course.

But of course, at that time, the leading technology was YouTube.

We'd show students a video, and then we'd have them answer a question.

And we could do a little bit.

If they got this wrong answer, we could show them one thing.

And if they got another wrong answer, we could show them something else.

But basically, it was very limited in the flow you could do.

And now, with these large language models, you have a much better chance to customize the results for the student.

both in terms of the learning experience, and then I think also in terms of the motivation for the student.

So that was the one thing we learned in doing the class is that we came in saying, well, our job is really information.

If we can explain things clearly, then we're done and we're a success.

And we soon realized that that's only part of the job.

And really the motivation is more important than the information.

Because if a student drops out, it doesn't matter how good our explanations are.

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