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146 - Christopher E. Mason & Igor Tulchinsky: Smart Weapons, Genetics, and Predictive Algorithms

146 - Christopher E. Mason & Igor Tulchinsky: Smart Weapons, Genetics, and Predictive Algorithms

Robinson's Podcast vor 2 Jahren

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Christopher E. Mason is Professor of Computational Genomics in
Computational Biomedicine in the Institute for Computational
Biomedicine and Professor of Neuroscience in the Brain and Mind
Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine. Igor Tulchinsky is the
founder, chairman, and CEO of WorldQuant, a global quantitative
asset management firm. Together, they lead a joint project
between Cornell Medicine and WorldQuant, the WorldQuant
Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, which seeks to marry the
expertise of financial prediction and analysis with genetic and
medical research to improve and deploy new methods of preventive
medicine. In this episode, Robinson, Chris, and Igor discuss
their recent book, The Age of Prediction (MIT, 2023), and how our
rapidly improving technology, data collection, and predictive
algorithms are changing the world in innumerable ways, ranging
from smart weapons in the military to solving crime and measuring
job performance.

Errata: In the introduction, Robinson says that this is episode
140, but due to a scheduling error the episode was released as
episode 146.

The Age of Prediction: https://a.co/d/3VAg0KD

OUTLINE

00:00 In This Episode…

01:10 Introduction

03:33 WorldQuant and Cornell Medicine

10:39 The Age of Prediction

15:51 Financial Prediction

19:44 Autonomous Drones and AI

28:38 Insurance and Prediction

33:35 Job Performance and Hiring

40:30 Using Genetics to Predict and Solve Crime

52:38 Final Thoughts

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
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