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Episode 24: Jack Parker-Holder, DeepMind, on open-endedness, evolving agents and environments, online adaptation, and offline learning

Generally Intelligent

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Using Machine Learning in Finance?

Finance inspired me to work on population based training and diversity and world models. How do those three subjects apply to finance or I guess tree is what you're doing? Is that a belief? Yeah. It's just because machine learning and finance is as with many applied to more applied domains, a fairly new topic. And so I don't think it really made sense that if we wanted to use a PPO to trade financial markets, say it was buying and selling one future contract every day. The high parameters that work for half cheetah might be optimal ones for that. But then when you then use machine learning in finance, I think you have to begin diversity again,. Because maybe

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