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By Daniel Penseyres | Photo Of Exmachina Movie
AVA Robot!
R obots like Rosie the maid,
from the 1960’s TV series The
Jetsons, Fritz Lang’s Machine-
Human from Metropolis,
Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot and even WALL-E,
C3PO, Optimus Prime and R2-D2 have always
fascinated and entertained consumers. In real
life they have been far less entertaining and less taking off. Both businesses and consumers can
functional.
Sure, robots are part of every factory floor in
manufacturing and have played major roles in
space and underwater exploration taking on
difficult and dangerous tasks. However, until
recently, robots have not proven to be nearly
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as intelligently evolved or financially viable as written by human beings that produce pre-
projected.
That is all changing. The exponential growth
in the power of technology, digital sensors
and information processing has improved
the potential of robots at the same time as
innovation and investment in these devices is
benefit from the rise of robots.
But will robots work in the world of finance? In
many ways, of course, it’s an absurd question to
ask because the core condition of any robot is
that it can only follow instructions: algorithms
defined outcomes.
As anyone who has sought financial advice
recently or tried to open an account in a
physical branch knows, you are talked through
a series of slides and tick boxes, answering ‘yes’
or ‘no’. That is precisely how robots work so
those processes may as well be automated. But
for those who dream of a robot banker such
as the robot Ava in Alex Garland’s movie Ex
Machina, keep on dreaming.