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> "Computers and algorithms" is just a synonym for people

I don't think we can say this anymore. I wouldn't say that the makers of AlphaGo were the decision makers for any of AlphaGo's moves. You could perhaps say the players of the games AlphaGo trained on were. When it comes to AlphaGo Zero you can't even say that. At most you could say that the people were policy makers or tweakers.

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Yes, but AlphaGo can't be used as a metaphor for a lot of the algorithms/automated trading strategies which were implemented based on research done by people, and carried out by computers. AlphaGo only trained against itself.

And Alphago only does training when it's asked to by Deepminds programmers.

It didn't spontaneously appear and start playing by itself.

The point is that almost all algo's that are actually deployed and making 99%+ of these trades are not AI / ML based.

So reference to AlphaGo doesn't make sense here.

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