They came to teach Artificial Intelligence. Why didn’t they come to teach Brain Surgery After Lunch? Or Rebuilding Automobile Transmissions? Might as well. I could’ve learned those as easily as AI.

Years ago, global finance ran on a familiar engine: human judgment, endless papers, and highly guarded expertise. Traders shouted across floors, analysts built models in spreadsheets, often using ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.

For years, the guiding assumption of artificial intelligence has been simple: an AI is only as good as the data it has seen. Feed it more, train it longer, and it performs better. Feed it less, and it ...