Robot Analysts Outwit Humans on Investment Picks, Study Shows

  • Machine buy recommendations can generate ‘substantial returns’
  • Study looks at 76,000 robot recommendations made over 15 years

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They beat us at chess and trivia, supplant jobs by the thousands, and are about to be let loose on highways and roads as chauffeurs and couriers.

Now, fresh signs of robot supremacy are emerging on Wall Street in the form of machine stock analysts that make more profitable investment choices than humans. At least, that’s the upshot of one of the first studies of the subject, whose preliminary results were released in January.