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Comment author: Mac 28 December 2014 02:22:04AM 1 point [-]

And if you're thinking about trading "AIs" developed on Wall St. and such, these are very likely to be narrow tool-like AIs with very specific and limited goals.

Alexander Wissner-Gross disagrees with you. He believes "superhuman AI" will emerge from quantitative finance. His talk at Singularity Summit is below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4amJyOfbec