The team that built an AI to dominate poker is now picking stocks

Three of the developers responsible for DeepStack, the first AI system to beat humans at heads-up, no-limit poker, have left their posts at DeepMind to form a new startup dedicated to dominating the stock market. The new venture, called Equilibre Technologies, will employ algorithms to pick stocks and cryptocurrency. Up front: The stock market is a nebulous and challenging environment to try and “solve” with AI, but the team’s leadership appears more than up for the challenge. Martin Schmid, Rudolf Kadlec, and Matej Moravcik, the company’s founders, all worked together at IBM and DeepMind. There’s something to be said for…This story continues at The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/team-built-ai-dominate-poker-now-picking-stocks