The financial revolution is here. Here, we take a deep dive with one of the world's top FinTech venture capitalists, Spiros Margaris, founder of Margaris Ventures, into the way AI and related technologies are transforming a key industry. Spiros is a senior advisor to, and investor in, several fintech, insurtech, cybersecurity, health care, and AI sector companies, including two FinTech start-ups with valuations of over $1 billion. Q: What issues, shortcomings, or inequities with financial systems are potential areas for transformation? Margaris: The financial technology industry -- FinTech -- seems to originate from the need to provide for a democratized financial system, at least, the FinTech companies that interest me.

Horse Jumper of Love is a rock band from Boston that makes the kind of music you might want playing in your hyperbaric chamber if you were stuck in there for a while and really wanted to lean into the experience. One of their best tracks, 2019's "DIRT," is built around a piercingly plonking guitar riff and the phrase "And there is dirt and there is juice / and I am mixing up the two." I don't know what it means. I'm not sure I'm supposed to. The strange slowcore formulations of their new album, Natural Part, is full of similarly perplexing songwriting.

AI needs a balance between speed and fairness. Is artificial intelligence getting a bad rap? Only half (50%) of consumers trust companies that use AI as much as they trust other companies, a survey of 19,504 people published by World Economic Forum finds. At the same time, the more familiar people are with AI, the greater their level of trust. The likelihood to trust companies that use AI as much as other companies is highest among business decision-makers (62%) and business owners (61%), the WEF survey shows.

Humans have always welcomed other beings in finance: over twenty years ago, some of the best Wall Street traders were outsmarted by Raven, a chimpanzee who picked stocks by throwing darts. Her index, called MonkeyDex, became one of the biggest sensations at the turn of the century after delivering a 213% gain. Perhaps because animals are not so easy to fit in offices, people have turned to other kinds of brains to choose equities. Big institutions are resorting to artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse stocks collating all sorts of information coming from a plethora of sources. In fact, while investments could previously be assessed based on financial reports and share price movement – what is called structured data – markets have been heavily influenced by unstructured data over the past few years.

GlobalData research has found the top artificial intelligence (AI) influencers based on their performance and engagement online. Using research from GlobalData's Influencer platform, Verdict has named ten of the most influential people in artificial intelligence on Twitter during Q2 2020. Evan Kirstel is a B2B thought leader with extensive experience across enterprises sales, alliances, and business development. He currently serves as chief digital officer and advisor of NYDLA.ORG, a remote, distance/digital learning and collaboration association. Kirstel is of the opinion that the role of artificial intelligence accelerates the opportunity for increased customer and agent engagement alike.

GlobalData research has found the top artificial intelligence (AI) influencers based on their performance and engagement online. Using research from GlobalData's Influencer platform, Verdict has named ten of the most influential people in artificial intelligence on Twitter during May 2020. Ronald van Loon is a recognised thought leader in technologies including AI, big data, IoT, machine learning, deep learning, 5G, predictive analytics, cloud, edge and data science. He currently serves as principal analyst and CEO of the Intelligent World, an influencer network that connects experts, businesses, and influencers to new audiences, helping them collaborate, create and share diverse content. Loon is of the opinion that AI has progressed at a furious pace over the past few years, and though it has usurped large chunks of the big data, the technology is nowhere near human intelligence.

Gaining insights about the latest trends and thought leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) is as easy as reading Enterprise Digitalization. Follow these accounts on Twitter to stay up-to-date with the latest AI news. To help you determine which AI leaders to follow on Twitter, Enterprise Digitalization compiled a list of some of the top experts. Here are 21 AI experts on Twitter that you'll want to follow. The names on the list are in no particular order).

It is perhaps the most pronounced narrative in business: Across industries, intelligent machines are marching (and these robots will take your jobs). Yet, most CEOs barely mention the subject to the employees who most fear they are at risk. Oftentimes, in their announcements of transformative projects--such as robotics processing automation (RPA), machine learning, natural language processing, and AI--business executives commend new operating efficiencies or workforce productivity, but fail to mention the impact on jobs. This impact, of course, is profound. A recent study by McKinsey predicts that over the next 13 years as many as 70 million workers in the U.S. will be forced aside by robots.

TORONTO, Jan. 02, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Datametrex AI Limited (the "Company" or "Datametrex") (TSXV:DM) (FSE:D4G) is pleased to announce its appointment of internationally recognized FinTech, InsurTech, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) influencer and venture capitalist Spiros Margaris to its advisory board. He regularly appears in the top three positions of established global industry influencer rankings. He is also ranked worldwide the No. 11 AI influencer by Jay Palter Social Advisory and the No. 10 blockchain influencer by Right Relevance. He is a speaker at international FinTech and InsurTech conferences, and he publishes articles on his innovation proposals and thought leadership. Recently, he published an AI white paper, "Machine learning in financial services: Changing the rules of the game," for the enterprise software vendor SAP.

There are many differing opinions on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on our worklives, from dazzling to dystopian. Bill Gates, for one, sees the bright side of things. "Think of all the time we spend manually organizing and performing mundane activities, from scheduling meetings to paying the bills," he writes in the foreword to Satya Nadella's new book, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone, "In the future, an AI agent will know that you are at work and have ten minutes free, and then help you accomplish something that is high on your to-do list. AI is on the verge of making our lives more productive and creative." Successful AI requires critical thinkers of the human variety.