The future of quants in the era of technological singularity

[antonKl]

How will technological singularity change the role of quants? Searching for insight...

 

[Andy Nguyen]

That's a deep question. Are we there yet? Is it even possible to achieve singularity?
If it is, we may have bigger worries like existential risk and quants may have evolved into something else.
Interesting question but to me, it's just too far into the future to know.

 

[antonKl]

Ok, let's forget singularity for a second. Will quants have to shift their attention because of technological advances?

 

[Rocko]

Increasing numbers of firms are realizing that a math PhD and code writing isn't enough to make money. Quants today need to show abilities to develop practical solutions for discovering/exploiting economic inefficiencies.