Can we trust AutoML to go on full autopilot?

Data scientists are in short supply, and Automatic Machine Learning (AutoML) promises to alleviate this problem. H2O Driverless AI employs the techniques of expert data scientists in an easy to use application that helps scale your data science efforts. It lets "everyone develop trusted machine learning models." A Chief Data Scientist and four Columbia University students with varying levels of experience put the technology to the test on a real-word problem predicting stock price movements (a challenging task!). The data was 5 years of stocks in the Russell 1000 index on a monthly frequency.