No 'secret world-domination class'—it's Stanford's public CS336 LLM course
silver__tsuki · x · 2026-08-20
Barstool Sports claimed Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe took a secret Stanford class about "controlling society and ruling the world." A reply clarifies the class is actually CS336, Stanford's publicly available "Language Modeling from Scratch" course on building language models from the ground up—the clickbait was just an exaggerated spin on an AI course title.
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