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Published: Tuesday January 03 2017Edgar van Tuyll van  Serooskerken, head of Quantitative Strategies at Pictet Wealth Management, explains how Pictet uses machine learning for two purposes: first, to hunt for profitable investment opportunities; and second, to search for patterns in big data that are similar to those of past periods.For the first use, machine learning can sift through the mass of data we now have on the past prices of assets in various classes, on company performance and on...

In January, Google’s AlphaGo crossed a major artificial intelligence threshold by besting human grandmaster Lee Sedol at the famously complex game of Go. The win prompted a flood of news stories about whether humans will become obsolete in a world of increasingly intelligent machines that don’t just follow instructions embedded in code, but actually learn. At Credit Suisse’s 2016 Thought Leader Forum, University of Washington computer science professor Pedro Domingos addressed the state of...