While AI is a powerful data analysis tool, it lacks the ‘general intelligence’ to be anything more.
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- Huge increases in the volume of data and computing power make it possible to gain an investment edge through swifter and better interpretation of information.
- Columbia Threadneedle Investments puts computing power into the hands of portfolio managers, enabling them to analyse unstructured data to gain a better understanding of a business’s fortunes.
- AI is just one tool in the data analysis armoury, although a powerful one.
- In the field of investment analysis, the possibility of machine intelligence replacing rather than augmenting human intelligence remains remote