Midha steps in to reset expectations around Stanford CS 153 after high-profile guest lectures from Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, and Sam Altman led some to label it an AI showcase; he stresses the long-running systems class, co-taught with Michael Abbott, stays rooted in infrastructure at scale and that AI topics belong in a physics curriculum instead.
very kind of @benln to say
but this was simply year 4 of a systems class @mabb0tt and i have taught for years at stanford - it was never intended to be the best ‘ai series’
if, however, i was designing the best AI series, it would be housed in the physics department not CS
Easily the best AI series available
CS 153 at Stanford. Lectures from Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman
As founder of AMP PBC and a visiting scientist in Stanford's Applied Physics department, Midha brings an infrastructure lens that predates the current attention and continues alongside his teaching duties.
Midha points to physics as the natural home for optimal AI study, noting patterns between systems benchmarking and science reasoning that the course already highlights without rebranding itself.
Many users praise Stanford CS 153 as an incredible free AI lecture series with Huang, Nadella and Altman, while others dismiss the sessions as superficial marketing podcasts lacking technical depth.
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@benln Totally Agreed 💯 Ben !
Here is the youtube video link to watch the series : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rN447WKQ5oz_YdYbS74M5IA&si=kS1wWIP13IDLHCRr
@benln Just watch Andrej's zero to hero videos on YT instead of celebrity executives lecturing you on the future of AI for the n-th time.
Easily the best AI series available
CS 153 at Stanford. Lectures from Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman
@benln Dude, these are not lectures, these are podcasts. Poor stanford students literally paying $70k to listen to podcasts that everyone have already heard at othet dozens of venues for free.
@benln lineup is actually cooked
@benln i believe what they’re saying but they’re also talking their book
@benln In your opinion, why is it the best AI series available?
@benln Fun time for my brain 🙌
@benln It’s got so much value. I will rewatch it🤣
@benln can you rank the top 3 videos to watch?
@benln No offence to this but I would bet cs336 is even more helpful than this celebrity lectures if you want to learn fundamentals of language modelling
@benln which is the best talk in the series?
@benln I would skip the glecture though...
@benln have you watched it all?
@benln thanks for sharing i listened to the @sama one but did not know of the others
@benln you get to learn something from them. i’ve watched three episodes in this series so far.
@benln in my opinion they give a lot of straight forward information and cuts a lot of bullshit, and that's really great
@benln The one you watched fully is the one I would skip. No Hate though, but the other ones seems much more interesting
@benln Tremendous value.. Learning a ton from @apoorv03's Stanford series as well!
@benln So much juice! Thanks a lot
