The Stanford 'open' AI course has attracted some 58,000 students and an article in the New York Times. So now the MOOC will be deemed to have been officially 'invented' by Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun. Credit? No, not a chance. "The Stanford scientists said they were focused on going beyond early Internet education efforts, which frequently involved uploading online videos of lectures given by professors and did little to motivate students to do the coursework required to master subjects... 'The idea that you could put up open content at all was risky 10 years ago, and we decided to be very conservative,' he said. 'Now the question is how do you move into something that is more interactive and collaborative, and we will see lots and lots of models over the next four or five years.'"
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