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Finance Watch Report: AI in Finance

March 10th, 2025, 12:28 pm

Artificial intelligence in finance: how to trust a black box?

I've not started reading it properly yet but thought it would be of interest.

https://www.finance-watch.org/policy-po ... n-finance/
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Re: Finance Watch Report: AI in Finance

March 10th, 2025, 1:07 pm

Artificial intelligence in finance: how to trust a black box?

I've not started reading it properly yet but thought it would be of interest.

https://www.finance-watch.org/policy-po ... n-finance/
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Re: Finance Watch Report: AI in Finance

March 11th, 2025, 1:54 pm

This problem predates AI. If your trading model is linear regression with 100+ factors, some of which are very sparsely activated, you can fool yourself "it's interpretable", but in reality it's also a black box.
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