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

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Charles Isbell is the Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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OUTLINE:

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(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