In a world buzzing with talk of artificial intelligence revolutionising everything from art to investing, it’s refreshing — and necessary — to hear a calm, critical voice. That voice belongs to IST AI Groups; Dr. Richard Saldanha: mathematician, academic, ex-hedge fund manager, and world-renowned expert in AI and machine learning.
“I don’t believe that artificial intelligence exists at this precise moment in time,” Dr. Saldanha says. “But that’s a hard definition.”
In the latest episode of the Investology Podcast, host George sits down with Dr. Saldanha to dig beneath the headlines. With over two decades in quantitative finance and academic roles at Queen Mary University of London and the LSE, Richard brings rare perspective to a field increasingly dominated by marketing hype and misconceptions.
What we call “AI” today, he argues, is often just powerful pattern recognition and statistical inference — not true intelligence. That distinction matters, especially as industries and investors bet big on technologies they may not fully understand.
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