The inaugural Refinitiv survey of 450 financial professionals reveals the latest AI and machine learning

trends, confirming that the technology is now an integral part of business.

Machine learning is deployed in financial risk management, pre-trade analytics and portfolio
optimisation, but poor quality data is still a barrier to wider adoption.

The survey also breaks down regional AI and machine learning trends, with financial institutions in North
America leading adopters of #MLreadydata.

We’re in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution: the fusion of the physical, digital and biological
enabled by data. Profound shifts, facilitated by technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine
learning, robotics and the Internet of Things, are already underway.

The future will be drastically different from what we know today.

Emerging technologies will underpin the formation of new human-machine partnerships, which will help
humans transcend their limitations, enhance daily activities and reset expectations for learning and
work. This is the actualisation of smarter humans, smarter machines.

Competitive advantage

The results of Refinitiv’s inaugural Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning survey reveal that machine
learning will be the single greatest enabler of competitive advantage in the financial services sector.

We’ve seen an explosion in machine learning trends over the past few years, led by applications for
image processing, natural-language processing (NLP) and machine translation.

As these new capabilities are largely based on open-source libraries, and can be deployed relatively
cheaply in the cloud, the barriers to entry have fallen dramatically.

We expect a flurry of commercial and product innovation from organisations of all sizes. The benefits will
extend well beyond automating rules-based repeatable tasks once done by humans.
Our survey of financial institution leaders and data scientists confirms that machine learning is now an
integral part of running a business.

Financial institutions have gone beyond experimenting with and testing machine learning. They are now
deploying it in key areas such as financial risk management, pre-trade analytics and portfolio
optimisation.

Machine learning usage is increasing. The machine learning trends transforming finance

David Craig, Refinitiv CEO, says: “This survey confirms the important role AI and machine learning play in
the transformation of financial services and can aid your organisation on its technology journey. In the
end, data is just the beginning.”

Poor quality data

You may be surprised to also learn just how much the quality of data matters. Poor quality data is cited
as the biggest barrier to the adoption and deployment of machine learning.

Unstructured data, as well as data from alternative sources, are increasingly important areas but need
considerably more work before their insights are truly reliable. The adage ‘garbage in, garbage out’ has
never been more pertinent.

If data is the new oil, then much of it still needs a lot of refining and that’s a heavy lift for the consumers
of data.

Data quality is biggest ML challenge. The machine learning trends transforming finance

Boardroom and the data lab

Data scientists are tasked with creating the models and algorithms that will set their organisations apart
from the competition.
But there is a mismatch between the vision in the boardroom and the reality on the ground. C-level
professionals believe it is important to be seen using the latest tools and techniques for competitive
advantage and may be overstating the company’s actual adoption of AI and machine learning.

Data scientists, on the other hand, are under pressure to deliver on the promise of machine learning but
must navigate real organisational constraints. The two agree that machine learning is essential but vary
somewhat in terms of their organisation’s current state.

C-suite vs data scientists - different realities. The machine learning trends transforming finance

Global machine learning trends

There’s also a disparity between how technologies are being adopted and used around the world.
Financial institutions in North America are the front runners.

Asian institutions are more advanced in some areas than in Europe, such as in machine learning being
core to business strategy and the projected growth in numbers of data scientists.

However European organisations lead those in Asia in terms of having deployed machine learning.

This could be due to the fact that the underlying capabilities originated in North America – from the
development of the first algorithm for random forests (developed by Tin Kam Ho at Bell Labs in 1995), to
the open sourcing of tools such as TensorFlow.

Time will tell whether or not open-source technologies will extend beyond geographic boundaries to
level the playing field.

Buy-side leads with #MLreadydata

Similarly, the study suggests that the buy-side is ahead of the sell-side, but the latter is expanding its use
of machine learning technology. This reflects the reality of hedge funds traditionally investing more in
machine learning in their search for alpha.

Again, the greater availability of advanced tools will likely level the playing field – on both buy- and sell-
sides – over time.

Smarter humans. Smarter machines. Buy-side vs sell-side

Learn more about the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Survey and what smarter humans and
smarter machines will mean for your firm and the future of the industry

So the unfortunate truth is because of laws in the rest of the world regarding camcorders, DSLRs are
imposed with an artificial 20 minuet recording cap. I have a Canon 7DmkII and frequently find myself in
situations where I need to set the camera up and just let it run.

Outside of buying a different camera the solution I'm currently looking at is the Atomos Ninja 2 - 4.3". It
looks like a great piece of gear for me. it takes HDDs or SSDs, it records in Apple ProRes and it looks like a
great little monitor with focus peeking among other things.

My problem is, I can't find anywhere what the max record time is. It says with a 1TB HDD it'll hold 22
Hours of ProRes LT footage BUT it doesn't say how long it will let you record CONTINUOUSLY.
Does any one know if the Atomos Ninja 2 will record for hours non stop? or does anyone have any other
suggestions other than getting a new camera?

The Atomos recorders will let you record continuously, as long as it has sufficient power, doesn't have
overheating issues (i.e. using them in hot climate regions) and gets burnt out. And of course sufficient
storage space.

The problem is the camera. Most DSLRs require live view mode to be active for the HDMI out to be
sending a proper video signal instead of just replicating what the live view is showing. In my Nikon DSLRs
for example, if I don't switch to video mode live view, the photo mode live view is not a proper clean
video signal. And DSLRs have a time limit, more like a power saving feature, that the live view mode can
automatically be turned off if you don't touch any button on the camera (like a computer going to sleep
or showing the screen saver after it's been idle for a while) and it isn't recording video to the internal
memory card.

Pre-installed applications or ones that are already in your phone when you bought it are deeply
embedded in the firmware. If you encounter problems with them, there’s a chance that they’re just a
result of a firmware issue. Such could be the case with some of our readers that own Samsung Galaxy S9
Plus units who reported that the camera in their devices keeps failing whenever they record a video. It’s
either they’re getting the message “Warning: Camera failed” or the app closes by itself when they start
recording videos.

In this post, I will walk you through in troubleshooting your Galaxy S9 Plus with a camera problem. We
will try to rule out each possibility until we can determine what the problem is. That way, we can
formulate a solution that may fix this problem for good. However, if this problem started after the phone
got dropped or left submerged in water for a long time, then you may need a technician to check if it’s
really a physical or liquid damage that causes it. Read on to know what to do in case you encounter a
problem like this.
Before going further, if you found this post because you were trying to find a solution to your problem,
then try to visit our troubleshooting page as we’ve already addressed most of the commonly reported
issues with the phone. We’ve already provided solutions to some of the problems reported by our
readers so try to find issues that are similar with yours and use the solutions we suggested. If they don’t
work for you and if you need further assistance, fill up our Android issues questionnaire and hit submit.

How to troubleshoot Galaxy S9 Plus with its camera that keeps failing

The camera that keeps on closing or failing may be a sign of a hardware issue that concerns the sensors
but we have encountered issues in the past wherein the camera was affected by a problem in the
firmware. So, we really can’t be sure what the problem really is just by looking at the symptoms; we
need to do some troubleshooting procedures to know what the real score is. The following are the
procedures you can do to try and fix this problem. Try to see what works for you…

First solution: Find out if this is caused by a third party

There are times when a third-party application will cause pre-installed apps to crash. This is the first
thing you need to find out because if it so happens that this is the case with your phone, then the
problem is pretty easy to fix. You just have to uninstall the application and the problem will be solved.

Now, you need to restart your phone in safe mode to temporarily disable all third-party apps. While in
that mode, open camera to see if it still crashes or not. If the problem is fixed, then it means that there’s
really an app that’s causing all the trouble. Find out which app it is and then uninstall it.

Here’s how you run your phone in safe mode:

Turn the device off.

Press and hold the Power key past the model name screen appearing on the screen.

When SAMSUNG appears on the screen, release the Power key.

Immediately after releasing the Power key, press and hold the Volume down key.

Continue to hold the Volume down key until the device finishes restarting.

When Safe mode appears in the bottom left corner of the screen, release the Volume down key.

And here’s how you uninstall apps from it:

From the Home screen, swipe up on an empty spot to open the Apps tray.

Tap Settings > Apps.

Tap the desired application in the default list.

To display preinstalled apps, tap Menu > Show system apps.

Tap UNINSTALL > OK.

If, however, the camera still fails when you try recording a video even in safe mode, then the problem
could be in the camera. Try the next procedure.