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AI hedge fund's roadmap to monopolize intelligence

by simondlr on 10/16/17, 4:09 PM with 1 comments

• by alexcnwy on 10/16/17, 10:33 PM

  I was initially skeptical about it needing a cryptocurrency but the idea of needing to stake predictions to prevent anonymous data scientists from submitting thousands of predictions to game the tournament is really interesting.

  I also really like the idea of the fund crowdsourcing many predictions with the obvious but unsaid endgame being the meta-model much like how the random forest algorithm ensambles many weak predictors into a strong predictor that's far more accurate than any single weak predictor.

  Interested to see where this is in a couple of years...