Introducing Tech Tonic: You Can’t Always Get What you Quant
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
As a News Briefing special we present Tech Tonic episode 3, our FT audio deep dive into how AI is gaining a new edge in markets.
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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. Hosted by John Thornhill, innovation editor at the Financial Times, and featuring Luke Ellis (chief executive of Man Group), Ewan Kirk (founder of Cantab Capital Partners and chairman of Deeptech Labs), Andrew Ng (founder of DeepLearning.AI and co-founder of Google Brain), and Alison Gopnik (professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley).
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Change is happening all around us. |
| 0:07.0 | At Accenture, we're helping businesses focus on not only what's in front of them, |
| 0:13.0 | but what's all around them. |
| 0:16.0 | Because when you see value in every direction, |
| 0:20.0 | you create value in every direction. |
| 0:23.0 | That's 360 degree value. |
| 0:27.0 | Accenture. |
| 0:28.0 | Let there be change. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi there from the Financial Times. |
| 0:36.0 | This is Mark Filipino. |
| 0:37.0 | Today is Friday, July 23rd. |
| 0:39.0 | And we're taking the day off from today's regularly scheduled FT News Briefing. |
| 0:43.0 | But hey, we're not going to leave you high and dry. |
| 0:45.0 | In fact, we've got something special for you. |
| 0:47.0 | Here on the FT News Briefing, |
| 0:49.0 | we are particularly interested in how technology is gaining new edge in markets. |
| 0:53.0 | And that's why we think you'll want to tune into the latest episode |
| 0:56.0 | of the FT's Technonic Podcast. |
| 0:59.0 | This episode delves into how and whether AI can take investing to a whole new level. |
| 1:04.0 | During the show, the FT's innovation editor, John Thornhill, |
| 1:07.0 | an FT global finance correspondent, Robin Wigglesworth, |
| 1:10.0 | talked to the developer of what is essentially an artificial intelligence BS detector. |
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