Look at it from this way: I couldn't expect to have access to courses like Probabilistic Graphical Models and Neural Networks by Hinton at probably any of the

Look at it from this way: I couldn't expect to have access to courses like Probabilistic Graphical Models and Neural Networks by Hinton at probably any of the universities in my country. By popularizing science, by being able to reach such a massive population, even if it inspires a 1% of those taking the course, it is absolutely better than Hinton or Kohler teaching a course to 50 - 250 students at UoT and Stanford per semester. This is long term we are talking about. Yes, the whole thing must be sustained by business, but I find a moral objective too here.