Attention Economy


Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Fooling AI and Robot Analysts

Sweet-Talking CEOs Are Starting to Outsmart the Robot Analysts
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-20/sweet-talking-ceos-are-starting-to-outsmart-the-robot-analysts
“A new era of robots reading financial statements and machines monitoring earnings calls means analysts no longer need to sweat a company’s every last word. For corporate leaders, it’s quite the opposite.
Company executives have started to adapt their statements and even their delivery to cater to the algorithms parsing text and speech for trading signals, researchers at Georgia State University and Columbia University have found”.
 
How to Talk When a Machine is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27950