7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund’s Brain
The company the article refers to is https://numer.ai/aboutFrom their homepage:"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."Ok, so how is this anything but an anonymous proxy to arbitrage insider information?Wrap confidential, non-public information under the guise of developing "AI" for trading?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?