# Professor Vasant Dhar discusses machine learning in finance

1 Faculty News November 21, 2017 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg192x144.jpg?itok=yV529lwz)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/this-robot-said-to-sell-facebook-next-time-it-may-be-right) -- "'Machine learning in finance is a tough slog,' says [Vasant Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar), a professor at New York University who’s run an AI-powered hedge fund for almost a decade. 'It’s easy to fool yourself about how these things work.'"

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