A 30 billion hedge fund had staff program a robot to play air hockey to help make them better at making money

Two Sigma, the 30 billion hedge fund that uses advanced technologies to find investment opportunities, just hosted its annual artificial intelligence competition. The fund asks its staff to program AI systems and then have them compete with each other for the TS Cup. This year the game was air hockey. A hedge fund gave staff time off to build an AI system to play air hockey. The competition has a serious side, of course.