Hedge fund traders switch to Silicon Valley to detect heart disease

"As much as I liked finance, I think there is a lot of potential for technology to do good in the world and I wanted to have an adventure." She quit her high-paying finance job recently to join a robotics start-up. Machine learning allows high-quality information extraction from images and is helping replace and complement repetitive tasks normally carried out by humans. Google has built a YouTube machine that can differentiate between dogs and cats. In March, Google DeepMind's AlphaGo beat Korean Lee Sedol, one of the world's best players of the ancient Chinese game of Weiqi, better known as Go.