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Demystifying artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence (AI) has had a significant global impact by changing the way enterprises, markets and consumers define efficiency and innovation. Financial markets typically feature large volumes of noisy and dynamic data while utilising highly complex quantitative models. This, therefore, makes them a suitable area for the application of AI.

Put in the simplest terms, AI refers to the integration of intelligence in machines that imitates the natural intelligence humans possess. The combined development of high computing power,

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