It feels like people have been predicting the end of the "hype cycle" for the last decade. I agree that this particular application seems... questionable, to s

It feels like people have been predicting the end of the "hype cycle" for the last decade. I agree that this particular application seems... questionable, to say the least, but finance is probably the last place where data scientists need to work very hard to justify their efforts. Statistical modeling has been a core part investing for a very long time, and ML is just a subset of statistical modeling.