Why we must bridge the skills gap to harness the power of AI
The potential of AI — both positive and negative — is widely understood. To ensure we make the most of this new tech, we need to close the AI skills gap.
Igor Tulchinsky is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of WorldQuant, a global quantitative asset management firm with over $7 billion in assets under management and 23 offices in 13 countries. Prior to founding WorldQuant in 2007, Igor spent 12 years as a statistical arbitrage portfolio manager at Millennium Management. Igor is the Founder of WorldQuant University, a not-for-profit that offers an instructor-guided, tuition-free MSc program in Financial Engineering, and is committed to making higher-quality education more accessible worldwide. He also founded WorldQuant Ventures, a private investment vehicle focused on disruptive companies in technology. Igor previously worked as a venture capitalist, scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, video game programmer, and author. Igor holds an M.A. in computer science from the University of Texas, completed in a record nine months, and an M.B.A. in finance and entrepreneurship from the Wharton School.
The potential of AI — both positive and negative — is widely understood. To ensure we make the most of this new tech, we need to close the AI skills gap.
We should be harnessing the connective power of programming languages through making coding an integral part of the global education system.
当前,我们处在预测技术的黄金时代的黎明期。由庞大的计算机驱动的数十亿精密算法使预测者得以处理越来越多的数据。如今,在从天气到医学到商业的一系列领域中,我们对未来下结论的能力理应比历史上任何阶段都要强。
The same advances in tech that have boosted our predictive capability have also made the task much more complex. To resolve this, we need a paradigm shift.
As business undergoes change, companies are realizing the power of technology to unify a dispersed, global workforce.
Education gaps in the developing world need to be filled if economic mobility is to be kickstarted again.
President Xi Jinping wants China to become the world leader in artificial intelligence over the next 12 years - and the country is already well on the way.
If an airline can save $100,000 by removing an olive from a salad, what can philanthropists achieve with small improvements?