Episode 202 - Charles Isbell
The Cripescast Podcast
Charlie Berens
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Charlie goes down the AI rabbit hole again this week but this time he’s joined by an actual AI expert, UW-Madison Provost Charles Isbell. Provost Isbell has been fascinated with computers since he was 8 years old, and in turn has dedicated his life’s work to them by becoming a researcher, computationalist, and educator in the field of computer science. From studying at Georgia Tech, to earning his PhD at MIT, and eventually becoming the Provost at UW-Madison, it’s safe to say he has rightfully earned the title of “expert” in his field. In this week’s episode Charlie finds answers to all of his burning questions about AI, like how it will affect job security, Wisconsin’s role in AI advancement, and how we can learn to use these new technologies for good. Perhaps most importantly, he finds out whether or not the robots will really take over the world.
For more information on Provost Isbell and his work, check it out here: https://provost.wisc.edu/meet-the-provost/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cripes cast. I'm your host Charlie Behrens. We are powered by everlight solar and here is today's episode. |
| 0:06.8 | Hello folks how we doing it's a very special day to me |
| 0:10.8 | because this is a podcast I've been looking forward to doing for a long long time |
| 0:15.4 | yes it is all about artificial intelligence and for those of you who are like |
| 0:21.1 | rolling your eyes saying this doesn't affect me at all don't go anywhere |
| 0:26.5 | yeah I don't because this it's gonna affect you whether you want it to or not and my goal with this podcast is to make it so you are as |
| 0:39.0 | prepared as possible for the introduction of artificial intelligence or continued introduction of artificial |
| 0:46.0 | intelligence into our society and I mean this from the perspective of your job but also |
| 0:52.1 | the perspective of your safety and the perspective of how we as humans can |
| 0:58.1 | interact with each other to help ensure AI safety and how we act and interact with ourselves and shoot I forgot to ask if we should be nice to the computers too. |
| 1:11.8 | Anyways that'll be for a different podcast. |
| 1:14.8 | How we interact with ourselves |
| 1:16.2 | and how we encourage others to respond |
| 1:20.1 | and the types of ways we interact with technology and by that I mean |
| 1:24.9 | double-checking sources all the stuff that sounds kind of boring so it's |
| 1:29.1 | never been more important to do this stuff. |
| 1:32.8 | And so, Colleen... |
| 1:35.0 | As your fellow layman and like general, |
| 1:38.4 | representative of the general population, |
| 1:40.8 | let me just say it's a easy, like they really help explain a lot of stuff. |
| 1:45.9 | I'm not even just saying this because I work for you, like, and I'm not saying this because I'm producing |
| 1:49.5 | the podcast. Like, it's not, like it's something that we, even after you've if you've watched the podcast and you know I roll my eyes every time he says AI I'm being that honest like it helps like you like listen to this |
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