Stanford artificial intelligence e-learning course draws four times the entire student body

There is currently no consensus on how closely...
There is currently no consensus on how closely the brain should be simulated. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Inspired by Khan Academy a new Stanford e-learning course on AI has triggered a huge volume of interest (4 times the size of the entire student body!)

Stanford Artificial Intelligence course draws avalanche of sign-ups.

Artificial intelligence is already here (and in control)

Artificial Intelligence II
Artificial Intelligence II (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Just when many were convinced of the futility of AI in the immediate future, an interesting article in Wired shows just how embedded it is in our everyday life, from flash trading to self driving cars, fraud detection and more. The difference?  Let computers accomplish tasks we don’t want to do their own way instead of trying to make them think like humans.

Artificial intelligence is here