Charles Isbell - Interactive AI, Plus Improving ML Education - TWiML Talk #4

Published: Sept. 10, 2016, 1:53 a.m.

b'My guest this time is Charles Isbell, Jr., Professor and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Charles and I go back a bit\\u2026 in fact he\\u2019s the first AI researcher I ever met. His research focus is what he calls \\u201cinteractive artificial intelligence,\\u201d a discipline of AI focused specifically on the interactions between AIs and humans. We explore what this means and some of the interesting research results in this field. One part of this discussion I found particularly interesting was the intersection between his AI research and marketing and behavioral economics. Beyond his research, Charles is well known in the ML and AI worlds for his popular Machine Learning course sequence on Udacity, which he teaches with Brown University professor Michael Littman, and for the Online Master\\u2019s of Science in Computer Science program that he helped launch at Georgia Tech. We also spend quite a bit of time talking about what\\u2019s really missing in machine learning education and how to make it more accessible. The notes for this show can be found at twimlai.com/talk/4.'