Guest Opinions: The AI-Driven Bank in Emerging Markets

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Guest Opinions: The AI-Driven Bank in Emerging Markets

If you think artificial intelligence is a thing of the future, ask yourself why your Amazon homepage looks different from ours or how Google translates websites on the fly. Consumers in developed and developing countries are benefiting today from these smarter types of software. In particular, the subfield of Machine Learning is making rapid strides in everything from detecting rare types of cancer to correcting our grammar. In essence, software development is transitioning from a process where humans figure out a few rules for the machines

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Nine Things That Could Happen Next Year

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Nine Things That Could Happen Next Year

2016 was a bad year for most prognosticators. As such, we’re bringing a humble attitude to the table for our nine predictions for 2017. After all, we could be right on the call, and wrong on it materializing within the next 365 days. Conversely, we could be wrong on our underlying assumption, but predict correctly thanks to a so-called ‘slop shot’ (i.e., a lucky shot in pool). So, with that in mind, let’s play nine-ball.

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