{"id":55229,"date":"2016-11-11T09:19:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=55229"},"modified":"2016-11-11T09:19:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:19:35","slug":"why-machines-still-cant-learn-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2016\/why-machines-still-cant-learn-so-good.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Machines Still Can\u2019t Learn So Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg)  Anthony Ledford and his colleagues at Man AHL spent three painstaking years building a machine-learning model to do something mere mortals often can\u2019t: find fresh ideas in an avalanche of data.<\/p>\n<p>But even Ledford, chief scientist at the $19 billion Man AHL in London, rolls his eyes when he hears people say that machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence, is going to transform hedge funds tomorrow. To Ledford, a lot of the buzz smacks of hype. The technology is more robust than its predecessors but hardly revolutionary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-11-10\/hedge-funds-beware-most-machine-learning-talk-is-really-hokum\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Anthony Ledford and his colleagues at Man AHL spent three painstaking years building a machine-learning model to do something mere mortals often can\u2019t: find fresh ideas in an avalanche of data. But even Ledford, chief scientist at the $19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55230,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55229\/revisions\/55230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}