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Meet Cortana: She could be the best trader in the world

Machine learning and natural language processing have already revolutionised the daily lives of consumers – is it time they were applied to trading?

Meet Cortana: She could be the best trader in the world
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Meet Cortana, who has the talent to be the best trader in the world. On her bad days, her prediction success rate is 83%. She predicted the winners of 15 of the 16 knockout games in last year’s World Cup (93% success rate) and 20 of this year’s 24 Oscars (83%).

If Cortana was a real person, there is no doubt that she would be flooded by offers from hedge funds. But because her dad is Microsoft and her intelligence is artificial, human traders are not paying attention - but they should.

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