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James Villurbia

CTO and applied AI expert; Presidential Innovation Fellow for NASA; former Head of Digital Innovation & AI at NASA CAS

Jun 1, 2026

MoHOST
13:20
Um, again, it-- and I could be wrong about this, but it seems like it was just a self-improving textbook.
13:27
Yeah.
13:27
So this was a project, uh, called Mount Cleverist, uh, because puns were really, really cool at the time, and we, we just love that.
13:34
But it was, I think, decidedly ahead of its time, um, 'cause we were hacking together without the billion-dollar budget.
13:40
We were hacking together NLP and AI models trying to build, um, what could, you know, like you could knock out overnight right now with the current models.
13:48
But the idea was, um, that schools, like, there's so many-- there's techni-tech, as you said, te-tech deserts, right? There's a lot of schools, um, whose, you know, procurement process to get tech-technology in the classroom is very slow.
14:01
The tech that they are buying is bad, uh, or, um, it's disproven.

17 MINS LATER

MoHOST
31:27
Are they right about something, or do you think that maybe they were right about something that we weren't seeing at the time, and maybe a couple of months later, we kind of think, you know, maybe they were right about the speed of adoption?

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