The Charles-Albert Lehalle Episode

About this episode

Mark Fleming-Williams interviews Charles-Albert Lehalle about AI world models and performance in financial institutions.

In this episode I speak to Charles-Albert Lehalle, a professor at Ecole Polytechnique formerly of ADIA and CFM. In our conversation, we discuss Yann LeCun’s theory of AI world models, the differences between working for banks, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds, how to diagnose why performance is bad, and the dream alpha-generating dataset. More broadly, I never hear any feedback on the podcast so if you have any, please find me on LinkedIn and let me know. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Mark Fleming-Williams

Guest: Charles-Albert Lehalle

Topics covered

• AI world models
• performance diagnosis
• financial institutions
• data analysis
• alpha-generating datasets

Keywords

• AI
• financial performance
• hedge funds
• sovereign wealth funds
• data sets

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ecole Polytechnique, ADIA, CFM

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