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Artificial Intelligence for Long-Term Investing

This paper presents the results of using a novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) model for long-term investing. The AI model takes various financial data as input signals and tries to determine an optimal portfolio allocation. In these experiments, the AI model considers the stocks of 40 US companies, as well as the S&P 500 index and US government bonds with one-year maturity. The portfolio is reb...

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Pressed by the exigencies of war time, prompted by the success of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and by the sincere, but naive, attempts at science legislation by Senator Kilgore during 1943 and 1944, and desiring to see what might be done further to promote the progress of science in war and in peace, the late President Roosevelt in November, 1944, requested Dr. Vannevar Bu...

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Long-Term Trends in the Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence

Analyses of text corpora over time can reveal trends in beliefs, interest, and sentiment about a topic. We focus on views expressed about artificial intelligence (AI) in the New York Times over a 30-year period. General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956. We present a set of measures that captures levels of engagement, measures o...