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Jim Simons, the billionaire quant trader and his firm, Renaissance Technologies are the AI/ML pioneers—they are computer experts and mathematicians who were developing machine learning and predictive algorithms in the 1980s. They’ve arrived at an important conclusion: Man + Machine is the ideal model… they’ve turned their trading decisions over to machines but they also make sure that humans play crucial roles in the process, too… they’ve demonstrated that the Man + Machine approach works best for investing/trading. Indeed, no one has shown turning all decisions over to AI’s works in the world of finance/investing. Perhaps it can for other fields, but the Man + Machine model is one with tremendous promise for many industries that rely on creativity—and it’s a more optimistic way of looking at the AI revolution…
Biography
Gregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal, a 27-year veteran of the paper and a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb award—the highest honor in business journalism.
Greg is the author of A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, which was published by PenguinRandomHouse’s Portfolio division in October 2021. The book has been optioned by HBO for a miniseries from Academy Award winning director Adam McKay and was selected by The Economist, The Financial Times, New York Post and Town and Country as one of the top books of 2021.
Greg is also the author of The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched a Quant Revolution, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. The book, which has been translated into 17 languages, was shortlisted by the Financial Times/McKinsey and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing as one of the best business books of 2019.
Greg also wrote The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters, a national bestseller published October 2014 that describes how several unlikely individuals created an American energy renaissance that has brought OPEC to its knees. The Frackers was named among 2014’s best books by The Financial Times and Forbes Magazine. Previously, Greg wrote The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller published December 2010.
Greg and his two sons wrote Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in their Youth to Become Stars and Rising Above-Inspiring Women in Sports, books that are aimed at inspiring young readers with stories of how stars in various sports overcame imposing setbacks in their youth. The books were chosen by Scholastic Teacher magazine as top picks in 2016 and 2017.
At the Journal, Greg is an investigative journalist who writes about big financial firms, personalities and trades, as well as hedge funds, the energy revolution and other investing and business topics. Previously, he was the lead writer of the widely read “Heard on the Street” column and covered the credit markets and private-equity beats.
In 2015, Greg won the Loeb Award for a series of stories revealing discord between Bill Gross, founder of bond powerhouse Pimco, and others at the firm, including Mohamed El-Erian. The stories led to Mr. Gross’s surprise departure from Pimco. In 2012, Greg broke news about huge, disastrous trades by the J.P. Morgan trader nicknamed the “London Whale.”
Greg appears regularly on CNBC, Fox Business, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Television and various television networks. He makes regular appearances on National Public Radio, BBC, ABC Radio, Bloomberg Radio and radio stations around the globe
Greg joined the Journal in 1996 after writing about media companies for The New York Post. Previously, he was the managing editor of Mergers & Acquisitions Report, a newsletter published by Investment Dealers’ Digest. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1988, Magna Cum Laude.
Greg lives with his wife and two sons in West Orange, N.J., where they enjoy the Yankees in the summer, root for the Giants in the fall, and reminisce about Linsanity in the winter.
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