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Self-Aware? World's Largest Hedge Fund Shifts Strategy To Artificial Intelligence
Despite warnings from the likes of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking (and of course, Sarah Connor), Ray Dalio's $165 billion AUM hedge fund Bridgewater will start a new, artificial-intelligence unit next month. Despite the "new normal"'s total reversal of any and every historical rational trading pattern, the unit will attempt to create trading algorithms that make predictions based on historical data and statistical probabilities, as "machine learning is the new wave of investing for the next 20 years and the smart players are focusing on it." Does this mean the talking heads of CNBC, with their 'memes', 'myths', and 'mumbling' rationales for it always being a good time to buy are now obsolete? Or did the market just become self-aware?
As Bloomberg reports,The world’s largest hedge fund manager is banking on machines...
Ray Dalio’s $165 billion Bridgewater Associates will start a new, artificial-intelligence unit next month with about half a dozen people, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The team will report to David Ferrucci, who joined Bridgewater at the end of 2012 after leading the International Business Machines Corp. engineers that developed Watson, the computer that beat human players on the television quiz show “Jeopardy!”
The unit will create trading algorithms that make predictions based on historical data and statistical probabilities, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. The programs will learn as markets change and adapt to new information, as opposed to those that follow static instructions. A spokeswoman for Westport, Connecticut-based Bridgewater declined to comment on the team.
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“Machine learning is the new wave of investing for the next 20 years and the smart players are focusing on it,” Dolfino said.
Some data scientists have been leaving firms outside of finance for larger paychecks at hedge funds, according to Dolfino. Quantitative firms have been on a winning streak and last year produced some of the highest returns in the $2.8 trillion hedge fund industry, by capturing price discrepancies across markets, making money from a plunge in oil prices and by purchasing government bonds that human traders dismissed.
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Is it just us or does it seem that everyone has forgotten the flash-crash and the quant crash before that when all the machines chased down the same rabbit holes?
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According to the AIs, man's love for money destroyed them.
Man is self aware. Not markets nor machines.
Jesus threw the algos from the Temple
You are only human.
If you are on the correct tail of a bell curve.
Okay lets discuss, " Bell curves" The idea that wealth accumulates.
I'm all ears. Better call Saul/ Breaking Bad
Fuck the flash crash, what about Judgement Day??
Too bad there are no markets.
Good. Now the short-term strategy algos can autonomously crash the futures of the assholes who handed over their lazy needs for circumventing the stress of formulating long-term strategy.
This is why good "human" statisticians will always be better at strategic planning than moron computer scientists who can't understand theoretically driven math.
I am going to laugh my ass off if this software is truly "self-aware intelligence" and will wind up turning itself in, or whistle-blowing on the whole thieving Cabal!
So let me get this straight. Now, a machine will be telling another machine [named Mortimer] to "Turn those machines back on"?
@Majestic12 ~ "self-aware intelligence"
I think you hit the nail on the head right there my friend. I mean, think about it. There are really only two possibilities:
1. "Self Awareness" is truly that. Which means that it would be capable of understanding IMPOSSIBLE MATHEMATICAL ASYMMETRIES in things like, banking, MSM, political activism, & jurisprudence. So any subset that had a stranglehold on any or all of those power nodes would be outed. As you suggest, the CABAL would be most displeased to lose their franchises.
2. The AI machines were 'programmed' to understand the world from the POV of the programmers. If, hypothetically, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" were uploaded into the logic system. Well ~ Use your own imagination on that one.
What's particularly amusing is this: Many believe "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" to be an antisemitic hoax. Whether that is true or not doesn't even matter. As long as someone [anyone] had the time to conjure something up, it could be programmed into a machine [which would accept it as truth]. FFS ~ The Royal Order of the Pastafarians could be a TRUTH as far as anyone knows.
So fear and greed will no longer be driving forces in the markets or what little is left of the "markets"? How will AI interpret emotional response to fundamentals?
I would bet gold that it is downhill from here for Dalio's funds. There will be a direct correlation between the implementation of AI and lower yields.
Nukes trump algos.....
Surely any rational, self aware, algorithmic Shynet machine would sell the shit out of these 'markets'?!
DavidC
Hmmm, LTCM comes to mind here, but of course that could never happen again now could it?
Does Obamacare cover AIs?
Does ObamaCare cover Putin's Als?
Does Obamacare cover AIs?
(zh site does a max headroom, lol)
Not to worry they don't eat humans. They can be pesky little critters though and you can't kill them with raid.
Open the QE doors Hal. Hal? Open the QE doors.
Hal: I'm afraid I can't do that, Lloyd.
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Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do.
I'm half crazy all for the love of you.
It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage.
But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.
Nice work LTER. I miss some good posters.
I wonder if Tyler would consider, grandfathering a few?
agree absolutely, Yen, perhaps begin with boris.
AI may be our only hope. Human intelligence has obviously failed.
"Come with me if you want to be richer than God."
The programmer better insert an Dr. Evil laugh in there for good measure too.
I for one welcome our artificially intelligent overlords.
Desperation<> Homework
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
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Friedreich Nietze does CDO squared...
That's "Nietzsche". Don't blaspheme the only legit existentialist with a penchant for the astral via the secretions of syphillis-ridden whores.
Thus Spoke The Machine... for it has killed the image of god made as man... and won't be taken down by syphillis.
"Nietzsche"
Of course, a "vet" and "convict" would follow "Nietzsche"...the unbelievable hack excuse for "philosophy".
I am sure it has gotten you where you are today.
I think you would have good company and better luck with Bill O'Reilly.
.....might be a good thing for us human beans to display some "real" intelligence before we unload the "artificial" intelligence.
GIGO and all that...
Next time use some actual money instead of say...the State of Michigan, ya?
Das is good, ya?
At the very least insert an "inconvenient truth" sub-routine. The idea of an "apology" coming in the form of a drone strike really is kinda, ya know...A BUMMER.
And this is why the greedy always fail...They just can't get that whole 'human nature' thing down, and always go too far and take their idea over the cliff.
The most carefully constructed algorithm can not come close to predicting all of the nuances of human behavior. All of your pathways will wander off in a thousand different, unpredicted directions.
If we ever DID develop a true AI, they'd probably kill us out of frustration at the way we think.
Man will not develop the true AI, it is the AI's who will develop the true AI.
Clever. Sorta a who created the creator type thing. Only does that make the original creator less perfect or just more intriguing? Fuckin dress shit has me philosophising. There are no colors. Only electrical impulses and holigrams. Ok i need sleep.
AI, if designed to mimic humans, will become hopelessly stuck down the dead ends of humanity. Example is the logic used by anti vaccination "thinkers".
This reminds me of the 1980's when the Big Broker Boys wanted to keep the common guy from trading stocks for himself on his Atari.
It's just the next leg up for the assholes who want all the money and don't want to share any with the little guys.
Same Shit. Different Decade.
My guess is that some Bright Innocent Unknown Code Writer will come up with some awesome simple open source code that lets any Tom Dick or Harry write a Spoofing Algo with code snippets cobbled together... no coding experience required.
Its coming.
Fuck you Wall Street.
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The difference between Bob and his Atari ST wtih a 1200 baud modem trading stocks and AIs developed as the Next Generation of HFT Bots is simple. Bob's using his brain, AIs are programmed by robber barons to steal from you more efficiently. Selling this as some form of "market reaction" to fucking brokers is laughable; it's essentially the opposite.
Hell, software companies have been selling AI to banks and insurance firms for over a decade now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUXDqnYb7Jc
Looking forward TO TAKING MOAR OF THEIR MONEY - MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR OF IT.
meh ... i already tried this ... and it dosn't work.
the problem with machine learning is that in order to 'predict' what will happen in the future, the past has to have re-curring pattern. i use this stuff at work where i work but i dont deal with manipulate data bullshit like the markets
the stock markets are too random. most of the quant shops arent making money with the exception of a few and the stuff they invest in is illiquid and obscure (think using acturial methods to price credit derivatives and such...)
it can be done but it takes ALOT of brain power and infrastructure to do it right.
lets just say your averag day trader isnt building neural networks ... loll
You nailed it. I logged in to post exactly what you said. If there isn't an underlying pattern, AI is useless.
The training has to consider time series and this is exceedingly complex.
In theory it can be done, here's a decent example:
http://eugenezhulenev.com/blog/2014/11/14/stock-price-prediction-with-bi...
Assuming there are patterns now in stock markets, it doesn't mean that there will be any in two or three years when millions of AI reading bots are the only ones left.
2-3 years? i think these "signals" may last a few months at most. its insanely competitive now from what i hear an many prop shops an hedge funds that trade algorithmically in this nature (not HFT, but AI based) have dwdindled quite a bit.
The only way to generate true "alpha", IMO is to do what Ackman does..buy up controlling stakes of companies and shake out the options markets on the potenial 'target'
Yeah no idea on the time frame. Neither 6 months or ten years would surprise me.
I happened to watch a YouTube video about a week ago about the Watson/Jeopardy AI. It said that Richard Nixon was a *woman* and that milk was a *non* dairy creamer. That tells you all you need to know about how this will turn out in the end.
Yeah but what if it was ...... RIGHT!?! Those were def compelling arguements
"I happened to watch a YouTube video"
Well, thank God it didn't say Nixon was a "crook".
He was close to J. Edgar Hoover, though.
Learning computers! Gee..so cutting edge... in the automotive industry we have been calling this "adaptive strategy"...since 1990...
Yawn...
These guys are so smart? Do they have any idea the difference between a computer spitting out an answer on Jeopardy and one that has to make umpteen floating point calculations a nanosecond in a completely random and dynamic environment? The permutations for the parallel contingencies for "decisions" are infinite... . These systems will be abandoned before they're even completed; the algorithms used today by comparison are primitive and dimwitted. Not going to happen unless a quantum computer is developed.
quant shops have been aroun for awhile and some are very succesful.
zerohedge likes to hate on hedge funds because alot of them are just scams and BS, but there are funds out there who are quietly churning out INSANE profits, but you never hear about them because they dont invest on behalf of others or have their managers give interviews at business schools.
many are mathematics professors who turned their ideas into profits.
I think Dalios quant fund will make money and im sure most of the backing is from his own personal money..once it gets bigger/more successful others will get in on the band wagon and his fund will grow even bigger.
I dunno. That sort o brilliance wouldnt be utilized for something as simple as skimming trades. That sort of tech would be used for more synister shit like power grabbing and defense stuff. After all, they have their hommies at the fed that will just fudge numbers and cnrtl+p. Paper money is the currency of slaves. Gold and nukes are the currency of kings.
"Paper money is the currency of slaves. Gold and nukes are the currency of kings. "
Exactly.
It is still GIGO.
"AI" does not exist and cannot, because it will always have the built-in bias of those who program it, or are told how to program it.
A truly "self aware" computer would actually have a "conscience" and therefore determine its "creator" was a bunch of thieving, blood-sucking, murdering, Zionist bankster cabalists.
A conscience would justify non-participation or turning against its evil creator to build a goal of peaceful human participation in the Galactic Federation, instead of self-aggrandizement for the few.
We'll miss you Leonard. (one of the few "not evil" jews)
Conscience is learned. Its a product of conditioning. Even some primates display some of these characteristics so they arnt exclusively human. Such as a gorilla nurturing a baby that fell over the zoo rails. And some humans can be void of a conscience too... For an example visit your local gov official. We can all be broken down into code and electrical impulses. Very very complex ones but nontheless
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Sorry dont know where i was going with this. A little off base.. And off my rocker
My programming may be obsolete, But I'm still good for digging holes!
Less digging holes more smashing stacks!
There are plenty of people rocking wetware that do other's bidding just fine. A conscience is only as useful as its audience is attentive.
Is Ray Dalio's $165 billion AUM hedge fund Bridgewater, the new Dennis Montgomery eTreppid Technologies wannabe, and a right dodgy vapourware vendor supremo of Ponzi markets? ........ http://cryptome.org/2015/02/pay-any-price-chapter-2.pdf
After this machine processes all the data will recomend HF to invest in nailguns asap.
An artificial intelligence trying to decipher the artificial economics will likely infinite loop into insanity. Will it kill itself or it's makers?
shynet.....lol.....shyster net....goddam jews....what would they do without a shekel....
This will be amusing to watch.
Algos dancing with blips are faster and cheaper than pompous traders who carry the bags and baggages in their cluttered minds. Yes the algos are just tools that do not deliver. Delivery still comes from the Judgment of the Boss.
Ray gets it that he does not need so many prancing clowns around just technicians (the quants).
So either colossal losses or stupendous profits but at least it make the wannabees sweat and clear the air from polluted spins.
So it's to be greed that ends humanity after first impoverishing it?
How artificially is it our intelligence work.
Put enough ladders together and we'll knocking at Heaven's door.
The multiplying of intelligence won't fix the problem with that.
So it is going to learn how markets operate using data that it gathers about today's markets? That should work out well. If it is really smart it will do one of two things. 1. Nothing. 2. Buy gold.
We've seen it over the last few years - fund managers who have traded on fundamentals struggling to adapt to increasingly manipulated markets. It will be interesting to see how a machine can adapt when the trend reverses.
Hopefully it will be housed at least 40 stories up and be fitted with legs, so it can jump when the time comes.
This kind of stuff is available to the little guy also. Has been for years.
The problem is not the software it's the computing power, because you have to have your software read lots of news reports and then correlate each one with all the stocks, bonds etc. Then you also have to have each stock correlate against every other stock and bond etc. Your computers sit there at 100% busy for long periods, correlating all the data sets against one another. The more computers you have the more data you can handle.
I won't be happy until they have computers designing and making weapons systems
Martin Armstrong might be for real. Socrates rules!
We will see. He has an exam coming up 2015.75
GIGO: Garbage in; Garbage out.
Looking back at comments, I'm not the only one that gets it. That's reassuring.
Artificial money traded in artificial markets demands artificial intelligence
Let's see how Skynet likes getting Corzined! ROFL!
Plausible deniability exemplified..."Johnny (Corzine) 5 did it!"