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Trade like a bot

Trade like a bot

Academics are learning more about how AI might trade

Unhedged · Financial Times & Pushkin Industries

June 11, 202419m 51s

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Show Notes

Researchers at the University of Chicago took a fairly standard large language model of AI and fed it a bunch of balance sheets and income statements and asked it to make predictions about earnings. In backtests, AI beat human calls by a small margin, and outperformed the market generally. Have fund managers been dealt yet another kill shot? Katie Martin and Robert Armstrong discuss, and go long shareholder commitments, and the musical genius of Yuja Wang.


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