Professor generates an ALVINN lecture plan on the spot with AI, comparing himself to a pre-trained model
alfcnz · x · 2026-09-24
alfcnz shares a fun teaching moment: after ALVINN (Pomerleau 1988) came up in class, he had AI generate a full lecture plan on the spot — covering multi-class perceptrons, multi-layer nets, learning signals, gradient descent, and backprop, with time allocations for each section.
He muses that being able to produce this content on demand with minimal overhead feels like being a pre-trained model asked to take on one more task: the representation is solid, the notation established, and the new topic Δ is minimal.
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