We investigate the use of machine learning techniques into building statistically stable systematic allocation strategies. Traditionally, allocation processes usually rely on variations of Markowitz framework such as Mean Variance allocation, Maximum Diversity, Risk Parity, Conditional Value at Risk, ie convex frontier optimization. Although those methods show some efficiency to allocate assets through the convex efficient frontier, they usually rely deeply on the estimation and the usage of the covariance matrix. Being no stationary and having multiple range memory (ie FIGARCH), the statistical estimation of covariance may lead to biases and errors and in the end, bias conclusions. Very extensive literature in econo-metrics, econo-physics, quantitative allocation cover this problem in order to remedy to the statistical estimation of covariance and his bias and issues.

Over the last decade, technical and infrastructural developments have created a nurturing environment for developing applications of machine learning and reasoning?Çöand for harnessing automated intelligence to assist people in the course of their daily lives. Microsoft researchers continue to push the state of the art in applying machine intelligence to the daily lives of people through research in algorithms and technologies to discover knowledge from large-scale data. By building software that automatically learns from data, our goal is to enable applications to behave more intelligently and enable users to become more productive.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has gradually become an integral part of modern life, from Siri and Spotify's personalized features on our phones to automatic fraud alerts from our banks whenever a transaction appears suspicious. Defined simply, a computer with AI is able to respond to its environment by learning on its own--without humans providing specific instructions. A new report from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, outlines how AI could become more integrated into people's lives by 2030, and recommends how best to regulate it and make sure its benefits are shared equally. Here are five examples--some from this report--of AI technology that could become a part of our lives by 2030. Smart traffic lights using artificial intelligence technology to learn and adapt to traffic patterns in real time could make intersections safer and more efficient.

Startup firm NetraDyne Inc. has launched its initial technology offering for the transportation industry -- a video-based safety platform that combines onboard cameras with artificial intelligence to provide a more complete view of driver performance. The company said its Driver-i platform, which uses an in-cab device equipped with four cameras, is designed to help fleets improve safety by tracking and analyzing driver performance during an entire trip, not just during critical driving events such as a crash or hard braking incident. The cameras track traffic lights, lane markings, other vehicles on the road and pedestrians, while NetraDyne's software uses a form of artificial intelligence to interpret that visual information and determine how the road environment influenced the driver's actions. "That is ultimately the power of A.I. -- to be a substitute or surrogate for a human reviewer," said NetraDyne President Sandeep Pandya, who added that the vast majority of video captured around the world is never actually reviewed by a human. "Being able to use artificial intelligence to eliminate that back-end reviewer delivers an efficiency we think that the industry is waiting for."

CHENNAI: Automation has claimed its first casualty in India. Textile major Raymond is planning to cut about 10,000 jobs in its manufacturing centres in the next three years, replacing them with robots and technology. Explaining the move, Raymond CEO Sanjay Behl said the company employs over 30,000 staff in their 16 manufacturing plants in the country. Through technological intervention we are looking to scale down the number of jobs to 20,000, through multiple initiatives in technology. One robot could replace around 100 workers.

Alicia Vikander in "Ex Machina," a sci-fi thriller about an eccentric inventor who designs artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) is all about getting a machine to mimic a human in every way: thought, speech, movement. That's why one of the tests for AI is the Turing test: whether a robot can fool a human into thinking it is conversing with another of its own species. An integral part of accomplishing this is making the AI recognize human emotions. So one research lab is working on the next iteration of virtual assistants, those that can recognize and react to emotional cues.

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It's hard to put your finger on why, but the voices our computers use to speak just sound wrong. Even with the best voice programming, like Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri, computers sound--well--robotic when they talk. But that could change soon. Neural networks are now tackling the problem of making computer speech sound more natural, filling sentences with nonverbal sounds like lip smacks, breath intakes, and irregular pauses. DeepMind, an Alphabet-owned world leader in artificial intelligence research, recently published a blog post about WaveNet, a convolutional neural network (like DeepDream) that can reduce the performance gap between computer and human speech by about 50%, researchers say.

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Artificial Intelligence comes about as machines learn how to do repetitive tasks better over time, this is referred to as'artificial narrow intelligence' and encompasses what is becoming normal to us through the use of algorithms on Facebook, google, Spotify and amazon. However, with the development of more sophisticated forms of AI such as IBM's Watson and the integration of AI into ordinary objects (IoT) the impact of AI on our lives is only going to get greater. Robotics and AI were presented by William Judge from CBA's Innovation Centre. We explored what these developments mean for both life as we know it, and our profession. William showed many examples of AI in practice, from speakers, home-helper robots and retail attendant bots. What was common though was the lack of tact that these types of AI had.