JP Morgan has been extremely busy in the last few years following the tech giants’ blueprint for AI: hire the best people, make headlines, re-invent the business, and… make money in the process. The firm’s public AI website, a part is shown below, highlights tech efforts around AI, FinTech, Blockchain, Development and Digital Payments. 40% …
JP Morgan and AI: „This is not Pie-in-the-Sky Stuff“ Read More »
Nicholas Moch joined SEB in 2008 as Head of IT Governance and four years later took over Information, Strategy, Architecture, and Emerging Technologies at the Nordic Financial Services Group. About a year ago, he was handed a “Supernova Award” in Silicon Valley for the way SEB uses AI in its digital interactions with customers, and …
SEB Head of Emerging Tech becomes Group CIO after receiving Supernova award for Aida AI Read More »
About ten years ago I interviewed Cliff Asness at an Institutional Investor event – as with his investment and research philosophy, it was honest and provocative. AQR went from $12 billion to $225 billion in a decade and a half, used data science and open source research from day one and has pioneered a number …
Brevan Howard, after hiring Karim-Patrick Khiar in the spring of 2017 as Head Data Strategist, two months ago made him the Head of AI Driven Systematic Investments… this marks an increasing push by (Alternative) Asset Managers to implement AI in the investment process, once big data is organized effectively. BH, founded in 2002, is one …
Brevan Howard Appoints Head of AI Driven Systematic Investments Read More »
Canada has always been a (quiet) leader of AI in its own right, with MILA, CIFAR, et al. Manulife in Toronto owns John Hancock in Boston (combined AUM C$1 trillion+) and they have been playing with AI for insurance and investment management in a variety of ways. Manulife – and under its John Hancock brand in …
Manulife/John Hancock and their “LOFTy” AI Ambitions – now in Silicon Valley Read More »
When a traditional shoe-retailer like Foot Locker creates data-science teams and completely revamps its corporate culture and process around their (young-ish) client base, with initiatives executed across product, user X, design and engineering by the Chief Information and Customer Connectivity Officer, it becomes clear how much AI is changing even the most “sleepy” industries. A …
Following its “Sputnik” moment, President Eisenhower created the (Defense) Advanced Ressearch Projects Agency (DARPA) in February 1958. In partnership with academia, industry and government agencies, the guiding principle from the beginning was to work on R&D projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science. The 140-page summary of DARPA over six decades includes fascinating …
DARPA Turns 60: Disruptive Technologies, Inventions, and AI Read More »
Today Stanford is launching the Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), for interdisciplinary research including academia, regulators and industry on future and emerging tech. It will be called Stanford HAI – high indeed. The two directors are academia superstars: Fei-Fei Li, the former Google Cloud Chief Scientist that publicly led the Google discussions on …
Stanford launches Human-Centered AI Institute: Human – Augment – Intellect Read More »
The Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings published a 100+ page study on Automation and Artificial Intelligence this week, focusing on “how machines are affecting people and places”. The authors, Muro, Maxim and Whiton, look at data for the impact of automation. First, backward, from 1980-2016, then forward, from 2016-2030, and across some 800 occupations. Not …
Yi Huiman, former head of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), named as new chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), with the expectation to focus on innovation and technology in partnership with the tech board.