Joel speaks with Kory Mathewson about his work in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, improvised comedy, and music. This is a great intro to the field, and addresses a lot of folkloric misconceptions. Kory is a PhD candidate in Reinforcement Learning at the University of Alberta with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. Kory has interned at Twitter Cortex, Google Brain Magenta, and Apple Special Projects Group. He is currently developing an artificial intelligence to perform comedy alongside.