Four Things I Have Learned from Teaching AI

Recent corporate workshops reinforced four lessons for me: teach in person when possible, cut the slide count, show smart people the result first, and let students do the work.

Some recent teaching lessons:

In-person classes are much easier to pace than online ones.
For my teaching style, fewer slides work better. Cut things. Do not assume that stuffing everything into a class makes it better. Sometimes it only restricts my freedom to improvise when an idea comes to me.
When teaching smart people, show them the result first and explain the process afterward. Otherwise, they lose patience.
Let students work on it themselves. My strongest teaching skill is guiding people to ask questions and think, because that is how I talk to myself every day.