Stanford University computer science professor Jure Leskovec is no stranger to rapid technological change. A machine-learning researcher for nearly three decades and well into his second decade of teaching, he’s also the co-founder of Kumo, a startup with $37 million in funding raised to date.
But two years ago, as the latest wave of artificial intelligence began reshaping education, Leskovec told Fortune he was rocked by the explosion of his field into the mainstream. He said Stanford has such a prestigious computer science program he feels as if he “sees the future as it’s being born, or even before the future is born,” but the public release of GPT-3 was jarring.
