Wave of Automation

I've often thought about how AI technology might be used to gain advantage investing in world markets.  Since markets have been largely digital for a number of years, and trades executed via online platforms nothing new, it would seem that adding an AI element to this environment is not only feasible, but probable.  Michael Lewis's informative 2014 book "Flash Boys", where Lewis details the rise of HFT, or High Frequency Trading, further suggests this possibility by explaining how financial companies are increasingly relying on sophisticated computer algorithms to execute their trades. Today, Bloomberg Markets is featuring a great AI article about Man Group, a UK based hedge fund with $96 billion under management who has been dabbling with AI technology for at least 5 years.  Initially quarantined in a "nuclear bunker" until 2014, its clear from the article that the rising success of the technology to make profitable trading decisions has simultaneousl...