Hedge funds embrace machine learning—up to a point – Return on AI – The Economist
The EconomistHedge funds embrace machine learning—up to a point – Return on AIThe EconomistARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) has already changed some activities, including parts of finance like fraud prevention, but not yet fund management and stock-picking…
Artificial intelligence in healthcare is at the end of the beginning: It’s been researched, introduced, proven to work, and it’s been put to use in real clinical settings. But adoption is slow. Healthcare has only explored the tip of the iceberg and, of course, there is much work ahead to improve patient care. AI in […]
When Timnit Gebru was a student at Stanford University’s prestigious Artificial Intelligence Lab, she ran a project that used Google Street View images of cars to determine the demographic makeup of towns and cities across the U.S. While the AI algorithms did a credible job of predicting income levels and political leanings in a given area, Gebru says her work was susceptible […]
Like death and taxes, there are only two safe predictions about cybersecurity in 2018: There will be more spectacular data breaches and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into effect on May 25. But as the continuing digital transformation of our lives entails the ongoing digital transformation of crime, vandalism and warfare, 2018 could […]
Michelle Li is director of the Masters of Business Analytics Program at MIT, from the MIT Sloan School of Management, with support from the MIT Operations Research Center, now in its second year. In this position, she is responsible for building the program, designing curriculum, hiring faculty, assessing admissions criteria for students and helping students […]