064: Stories, Bias and AI with Aditya Mukerjee




Greater Than Code show

Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/jameybash"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jamey Hampton</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="http://twitter.com/geeksam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Livingston-Gray</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aditya Mukerjee: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/chimeracoder"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@chimeracoder</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://adityamukerjee.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">adityamukerjee.net</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://www.meetup.com/Identity-Hackers/?_cookie-check=taAY0Q31Gb8dx5Zv"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identity Hackers</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Join Our Slack Channel!<br> </b><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">Support us via </b><a style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 1.8rem;" href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:58</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Aditya’s Superpower: Parking Karma</span></p> <p><b>03:18 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Algorithmic Decision Making in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence</span></p> <p><b>09:06 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Recognizing the Effects of Bias</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_blind_spot"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Bias Blind Spot</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2321549/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Babadook</span></a></p> <p><b>18:07 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Health and Technology: How can technology have a meaningful impact on care delivery?</span></p> <p><b>23:54 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Why are people frightened of automation?</span></p> <p><b>33:33 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Storytelling in Software and Engineering</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Sam: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be a little bit more aware of how stories are told.</span></p> <p><b>Aditya:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Thinking of yourself as an editor for the story.</span></p> <p><b>Jamey:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The difference between can we build this and should we build this?</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Transcript:</strong></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>JAMEY</b></span><span class="s2"><b>:<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></b></span><span class="s1">Hi everyone! Welcome to Episode 64 of your favorite podcast, Greater Than Code. I’m Jamey Hampton and I’m here with my fellow panelist and good friend, Sam Livingston-Gray.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>SAM:<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></b>Hello, hello. I am pleased this morning to welcome Aditya Mukerjee to the show. Aditya is an entrepreneur, investor and engineer based in New York City. He studied Statistics at Columbia and Computer Science at Cornell and was once a nationally ranked wrestler, so there’s really nothing he can’t do. He enjoys playing German-style boardgames and listening to embarrassing music. You can believe we want to know more about that. And he organizes identity hackers, which is a group for LGBTQ+ engineers in New York. Welcome to the show.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>ADITYA:<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></b>Thank you. Thanks for having me. </span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>JAMEY:<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></b>So, we usually like to start off our shows by asking our guest, what is your superpower and how did you acquire it?</span></p> <p class="p1"><span></span></p>