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Andrew In is an associate professor and director off the artificial intelligence lab at Stanford University in California. He's an engaging presenter, so it's not surprising that his courses are some of the most popular on campus machine learning. The science of getting computers Toe Act without being explicitly programmed attracts about 350 students per year. But when Andrew decided to open the course to the general public, over 100,000 people registered course era administers machine learning, onda growing range of online courses to students around the world. Although a for profit startup cost, Sarah has, at the time of writing, offered his courses for free in its 1st 2 years of existence, and over 4.5 million students have already signed up. Classes are typically 8 to 10 minute video lectures, interspersed with short quizzes to test for comprehension. There are also question and answer forums with an astonishing average response time of 22 minutes. This is attributed toe having students scattered around the world. There is almost always someone online 24 hours a day, willing to offer a response with such large numbers. Having academics assess student work became unrealistic so call Sarah instigated peer assessment. Tens of thousands of students graded each other's work. Many academics were horrified at the prospect of students assessing each other. But pilot studies demonstrated that peer grading at core Sarah almost always correlates to tutor grading. Daphne Koller Co. Sarah's co founder, is convinced that massive open online courses MOOCs such as machine learning, have the potential to establish education as a fundamental human right where anyone around the world with the ability and the motivation could get the skills that they need to make a better life for themselves. A farmer in a remote village in Africa finds his small potato crop under attack from ants. He cycles to the cyber cafe in the nearest town and learns that the ants are repelled by scattering ashes on the soil around the potatoes. On returning home, he scribbles down the solution on pins it to the village notice board so that his neighbours can follow suit. Ah, whole village escapes a devastating drop in collective income. Colonies of ants have to look elsewhere for food