[S2 Re-sliced] 6. Are you a planner? by Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats

[S2 Re-sliced] 43. Is there anything you'd like to talk about that we haven't covered?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 42. Why did you agree to do this interview with me?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 41. What is some of the best advice you've gotten or given?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 40. Describe something that made you smile today.

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 39. What are some traits common across some of the best collaborators you've worked with?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 38. How do you capture and keep track of ideas?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 37. How do you decide what to work on?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 36. Pineapple on pizza? Yummy or an abomination?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 35. What do you struggle with in life?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 34. Do you think there is a point to life or our existence?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 33. When do you think the world will open back up?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 32. Do you think about the future much (on a 5-10 year scale)?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 31. How do you imagine your retirement?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 30. What are you addicted to?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 29. What is a bad habit you are working on overcoming?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 28. What is something you've changed your mind about?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 27. What do you strongly suspect but have no proof of?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli, Carlos Guestrin, Charles Isbell, and Yejin Choi.

[S2 Re-sliced] 26. What do you wish your brain was better at doing?

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats is an interview series with AI researchers to get to know them better as people. We don't talk about AI or their work or the stats of their life like what college they went to. They share what they think about, what they are insecure about, what they get excited about. They share the stories of their day-to-day life.

In [S2 Re-sliced] Humans of AI: Stories Not Stats, we have collated answers from all Season 2 guests to the same question. All thanks to the efforts of Varshini Subhash and Mukul Khanna!

All interviews in the series are available at http://humanstories.ai. They were recorded between February and June 2021.

The host is Dhruv Batra, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and a Research Director at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Find out more about him here or follow him on Twitter.

The guests are Devi Parikh, Ray Mooney, Danny Tarlow, Kyunghyun Cho, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Judy Hoffman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Georgia Gkioxari, Akshara Rai, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adriana Kovashka, Aaron Courville, Yonatan Bisk, Sasha Rush, Stefan Lee, Felix Hill, Pushmeet Kohli,

Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats

By Devi Parikh

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