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The James Altucher Show

The Age of Prediction | Igor Tulchinsky and Chris Mason

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

?The Age of Prediction is such a fascinating book! After reading it, I really do think the job people should be preparing for is "data analyst" or "predictor", because that's going to be used in every single industry, more than prompt engineers or AI coders - because AI is going to write its own code. Being able to understand what data to look at and why and how to make use of it, whether it's the medical industry or sports or stocks or insurance or art, this is going to be such a valuable skill to have, and it's a just beginning field. The creativity there is going to be amazing.The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk by Christopher Mason and Igor Tulchinsky is like a guidebook to what's happened, what's going to be happening, and all the different ways people use will prediction technology.Igor has a $7 billion hedge fund, which analyzes millions of pieces of data around the world to predict stocks, whether something will happen tomorrow, or an hour from now, or 10 seconds from now.Christopher Mason is geneticist and computational biologist who has been a Principal Investigator and Co-investigator of many NASA missions and projects. I wanted to know: What is the state of this industry? How much can we really predict? How can we get better at it? What are the limitations? How close are we to manipulating DNA for disease gene removal? Can single-gene editing be done within a living human? We talk about all of that, and then just have a fun time while I pitched different ideas. Enjoy our interview with Igor and Chris, authors of The Age of Prediction.-----------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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I think the biggest job of the next generation, like this is what I would do if I was figuring

0:12.0

out what to study and train in, is predictor.

0:16.9

Like we've seen examples of this, we saw the movie Moneyball where they used data about

0:21.4

baseball players to predict which baseball teams would do the best.

0:26.7

I used to write algorithms for the stock market to use data to try to predict how stocks would act

0:33.9

and we're going to talk about that more today.

0:35.9

And people use data also now to analyze the genome to predict what diseases someone might have

0:41.8

and on and on. But the technology has gotten so good, so fast, I'm happy to talk with

0:49.4

the two authors of the book, The Age of Prediction, Christopher Mason and Igor Telchinski.

0:57.6

Now, Igor is interesting from the financial perspective.

1:00.8

He has a $7 billion hedge fund which analyzes millions of pieces of data around the world

1:08.3

to predict stocks. To predict simply what's going to happen with stocks tomorrow or an hour from now

1:14.2

or 10 seconds from now. And Christopher Mason uses data from the human genome to study what diseases

1:23.2

we can start curing, what sicknesses someone might have or what traits someone might grow up with.

1:28.9

So I want to know, what is the state of this industry? Like how much can we really predict?

1:33.3

How can we get better at it? What are the limitations? And then we just had a fun time while I

1:39.6

pitched different ideas. So here's Igor and Chris, authors of The Age of Prediction.

1:51.7

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. This is the James

1:57.7

Altiger show.

2:08.4

You know, Chris, I'm amazed at all the things you were able to discover about people by analyzing

2:15.6

their genetics. Yeah, basically it's a predictive algorithm that's in every cell. So you have bits of

2:22.0

DNA, RNA proteins and you leave these everywhere you go. So I think of the forensics chapter you're

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