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The freeCodeCamp Podcast

#113 AI and the Future of Education with Seth Goldin

The freeCodeCamp Podcast

Quincy Larson

Education, Technology

5.0549 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson discusses AI and the future of education with Seth Goldin. Among other things, Seth is co-founder of College Compendium, an education charity, and studies computer science at Yale.

Also, the quote Quincy mentioned isn't by Ben Franklin. It's by William Blackstone in 1769 who said: "the law holds that it is better that 10 guilty persons escape, than that 1 innocent suffer (innocent person be convicted)."

Seth's free "Google Like a Pro" course: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-google-like-a-pro/

Seth's free "The Ethics of AI and ML" course: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-ethics-of-ai-and-ml/

Follow Seth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/seth_goldin

Seth's recommended article "ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web": https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

Klara and the Sun book Seth recommended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klara_and_the_Sun

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Freecode Camp podcast.

0:24.3

I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of Freakocamp.org.

0:28.2

And each week we're bringing you insight from developers, entrepreneurs, and ambitious people who are getting into tech.

0:35.3

This week, we're joined by Seth Golden.

0:39.2

He's an open source project maintainer, developer,

0:43.3

a prolific free co-camp contributor,

0:45.7

and he is a computer science student at Yale.

0:49.8

Welcome, Seth.

0:51.6

Thank you for having me, Quincy.

0:55.5

Yeah, it's great to have you here, man.

1:01.4

You're somebody whom I've enjoyed talking with for years at this point, and you have a very special relationship with a gentleman who has, who has also contributed a lot to Free Code

1:08.1

Camp, Sam Cromby.

1:10.2

And I wanted to start by just going back in time a few

1:14.1

years to how you met Sam. Yeah. So Sam and I actually met, we're both originally from South Florida.

1:25.3

And we met through a mutual friend, Joe, who is also one of my really

1:31.0

good friends. And they were working together on a project, and Joe and I had worked together

1:36.8

on a project. And somehow Sam and I got connected. And we all have this interest in ed tech and that's education technology.

1:49.7

And so it just like immediately hit it off.

1:54.3

And our first big project together, Sam and I was we recognized that there's this amazing wealth of resources that exist on the internet,

2:03.7

which is the fact that most college CS curriculums are available online for free publicly.

2:10.4

Yeah.

2:11.4

And at the time, we saw that these were courses that were just being passed around on

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