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Re:The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and p... by qvrjuec on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:14PM (#21250483)
Yes, but AlphaGo can't be used as a metaphor for a lot of the algorithms/automated trading strategies which were implemented based on research done by people, and carried out by computers. AlphaGo only trained against itself.
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Re:The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and p... by sgt101 on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:18PM (#21253010)
And Alphago only does training when it's asked to by Deepminds programmers.

It didn't spontaneously appear and start playing by itself.

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Re:The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and p... by unforeseen9991 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @04:31PM (#21263394)
The point is that almost all algo's that are actually deployed and making 99%+ of these trades are not AI / ML based.

So reference to AlphaGo doesn't make sense here.

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