7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund’s Brain
The company the article refers to is <a href="https://numer.ai/about" rel="nofollow">https://numer.ai/about</a><p>From their homepage:<p>"February 27th 2016, an artificial intelligence named NCVSAI joined Numerai. . . He uses an untraceable email address. . . He is completely anonymous. His strongest prediction: buy Salmar ASA — a Norwegian salmon company. . . Numerai’s hedge fund went long Salmar ASA."<p>Ok, so how is this anything but an anonymous proxy to arbitrage insider information?<p>Wrap confidential, non-public information under the guise of developing "AI" for trading?<p>I am serious, I don't necessarily understand the need for the data scientists to maintain anonymity, seems like the only functional reason is to let them break the law?