How Voya Is Blending AI With Humans to Pick Stocks

Gareth Shepherd, an expert on artificial intelligence, is excited about the technology’s potential, noting there’s been an explosion of new uses for it. But that doesn’t mean he’s consigning humans to the dustbin of history. Far from it.

“Human-plus-machine beats the best human or machine alone,” says Shepherd, co-head of machine intelligence at Voya Investment Management.

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