It’s the end of the year and tongues are loosening... WHO SAID WHAT


IBS Journal December 2017


We hear a lot of things as we lurk beside the Christmas trees at the office parties we attend. And here is a selection of the some of best festive comments


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The large market fluctuations are driven by people who are using the media to manipulate the prices of various coins for quick profits both up and down, especially because nobody is regulating or watching these markets. What would be illegal for most other things can be done without risk in these crypto markets


Christopher Grey, Co-Founder and COO of CapLinked ” “ AI is no match for natural stupidity.


Keep focused on the people who make AI. Raise your children and your robots well. I think people will become very close to their AI, using them to expand the knowledge in their own minds. We already store a lot of our knowledge on the internet. Maybe personal AI will allow people to offload some of their knowledge to a location more private


Sophia, robot, Hanson Robotics ” “


Bitcoin is a tool of speculation. Investments take place in a ‘complete market’. Once these products are in place we’ll see a wave of money from institutional investors enter the market, all chasing a limited supply of Bitcoin


David Coker, Lecturer in Finance, Westminster Business School


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You will get a beautiful tablescape, hours of entertainment and fun favours to create a cracker of a day. If you’re invited to a Christmas hosted by a millennial this year, be prepared for anything but a Silent Night


Ella Canby, founder of hosting agency Sugarella Cooks


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By the use of cloud, we can now scale the processes to solve a problem very fast. This is why it makes it so convenient to couple with AI and machine learning. Now we can go through data in a fraction of the time it would take us if it were on a physical server. This level of scalability and elasticity will allow us to simplify and speed up so many processes. We just need to help banks and companies shed those fears


Chamindra De Silva, VP technology at Virtusa ”


The relentless march of rising life expectancy presents challenges to savers and society as a whole. While living to 100 now is celebrated as a landmark event, in the not-too-distant future the Queen will need an army of scribes to write telegrams to our huge population of centenarians


Tom Selby, senior analyst, AJ Bell ” www.ibsintelligence.com


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