Illustration of a retro fortune telling robot with business people looking under hood to see how the predictions are made. Can a machine learning analyst outperform a human? Research shows that its depends on how the program's built and what companies you're focused on.

Can AI beat your analyst? It depends

Market watchers may see machine learning analyst programs as a golden ticket to gains. New research shows that how each program is built impacts if and when it’s accurate.

Carolina Salge

A new way to think about bots

Salge and co-authors — Elena Karahanna of UGA and Jason Thatcher of the University of Colorado-Boulder (formerly of Temple University) — recently won best paper awards from the Association for Information Systems, the academic association for information systems scholars, and from MIS Quarterly, a premier information systems journal, for their investigation into the ways bots impact the information ecosystem online.