From the course: AI in Fintech Essential Training
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How does AI work?
From the course: AI in Fintech Essential Training
How does AI work?
- [Instructor] One of the neat things about the democratization of AI is that it's coming to a lot of applications you might be familiar with. Excel is one such example. I'm in the oh 0202_Begin Excel file. Now, what we've got here is just a short list of different companies based on their stock ticker symbols and a short list of countries. And the neat thing here is that Excel has recently implemented new features that allow us to pull data based on these particular data types, and that data is key for any AI applications we might want to use. So the first of these new data types is what's called Stocks. As the name implies, we can take any ticker symbol and convert it into a Stock data type and then pull data based on that. So for instance, I'll highlight the Apple cell and then click Stocks. Now look what happened. Excel goes through and says, oh, I recognize this. We're looking for Apple. So I'll highlight the others and I'm going to do the same thing. And we see them all…
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