Introducing Tech Tonic: You Can’t Always Get What you Quant
The Story of Money
Manuela Saragosa
4.4 • 400 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Introducing the FT Tech Tonic podcast. You can subscribe and listen to the rest of the series here.
From picking the best stocks to listening in on earnings calls, AI-powered systems are changing finance. But how big are the rewards, really? And what are the risks? In this episode Robin Wigglesworth tells us how AI has been used in investing, what happens when programs must adapt to new risks and what the robots could learn from watching children play.
Alice Fordham is senior producer. Josh Gabert Doyon is assistant producer. Oluwakemi Aladesuyi and Liam Nolan are the development producers. Sound design and mixing by Breen Turner. Cheryl Brumley is the executive producer for this series. Original scoring composed by Metaphor Music.
Review clips: Alphabet, Netflix, Amazon, Man Group.
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| 0:00.0 | Finance loves anything that gives it an edge. |
| 0:05.0 | Flashy technology and high-powered automation in the financial sector is nothing new. |
| 0:11.0 | But today AI systems that can process more data than a human ever could |
| 0:16.0 | have allowed market traders to make ultra-fast decisions. Streams of data have given these AI systems the capacity to generate new trading strategies. |
| 0:27.0 | Machine learning tools that analyze satellite imagery or social media chatter have conjured new unusual ways to analyze markets. |
| 0:35.6 | Machine learning systems can read the number of oil tankers photographed from space |
| 0:40.0 | to get an edge on stock prices or count the number of cars in supermarket car parks. |
| 0:46.0 | The hope is that machine learning makes sharper predictions, |
| 0:51.0 | finding the signal in the noise. |
| 0:54.0 | We can process very big data sets using artificial intelligence. |
| 1:01.0 | You know, you get a big ocean, there's an awful lot of water and not much fish but if you have a good radar and whatever else you need you know you can get to the fish |
| 1:10.6 | Luke Ellis is the head of man group, an investment firm that's known for its use of |
| 1:15.2 | machine learning technology. |
| 1:17.4 | They make profits, or alpha, from the research generated by AI. One of the ways they do that is by using natural language processing software to read text and speech from company reports and other financial documents. |
| 1:30.0 | Thank you for standing by. |
| 1:32.0 | Good to everyone. |
| 1:33.0 | The software can listen to more hours of calls and read more pages of company reports than any human. |
| 1:39.2 | Today, earnings calls from corporate bosses have not just humans listening in, but AI-powered systems too. |
| 1:47.0 | Good afternoon and welcome to the Netflix Q1 in 2021. |
| 1:51.0 | Welcome to the Alphabet's first quarter 2021. 21st quarter 2021 conference. |
| 1:54.8 | Your holiday season has always been a |
| 1:56.8 | disused to 50% of the whole. |
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