#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America

Charles Isbell is the Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (07:16)
- Top 3 movies of all time (13:26) - People are easily predictable
(19:08) - Breaking out of our bubbles (30:54) - Interactive AI
(37:26) - Lifelong machine learning (45:53) - Faculty hiring
(53:27) - University rankings (1:00:55) - Science communicators
(1:10:20) - Hip hop (1:19:20) - Funk (1:20:44) - Computing
(1:36:35) - Race (1:52:40) - Cop story (2:01:01) - Racial tensions
(2:10:23) - MLK vs Malcolm X (2:13:44) - Will human civilization
destroy itself? (2:18:14) - Fear of death and the passing of time