Square's Head of AI Explains How Machine Learning Is Changing Commerce

Square's merchant products have become popular among small business owners. Machine learning is everywhere these days, and finance is no different. Both large banking institutions and scrappy startups are attempting to "disrupt" money with artificial intelligence (AI), collectively helping make AI an integral part of the industry's future. As the head of the commerce platform machine learning team at Square Inc., Marsal Gavalda helps lead the technical aspects of the Jack Dorsey-founded payments platform. Gavalda and his team apply machine learning and automation to Square's payment products, which in recent years have aimed to revolutionize the way merchants conduct transactions.