英国畅销书作家罗伯特·哈里斯出版于2011年的力作《恐慌指数》,讲述了一位天才科学家在金融危机背景下,被自己开发的赚钱工具毁灭的故事。书中的主人公霍夫曼和拍档——一位投资银行家一起研发出了一种前所未有的人工智能,可以用来追踪人类各种情感,并以此预测金融市场的波动起伏,结果惊人准确。霍夫曼借助此项发明在日内瓦创立了避险基金,并从此成为亿万富豪。当夜幕降临到日内瓦,资本市场马上要迎来一场风暴,而霍夫曼的世界,连同我们的世界,从此将被 British bestselling author Robert Harris, published in 2011’s “Panic Index,” tells the story of a talented scientist who was devastated by the money-making tools he developed in the wake of the financial crisis. Hoffman, the hero of the book, works with an investment banker, an investment banker, to develop an unprecedented kind of artificial intelligence that can be used to track human emotions and predict the volatility of financial markets, with surprising accuracy. With this invention, Hoffman founded a hedge fund in Geneva and has since become a billionaire. When the night falls to Geneva, the capital market is about to welcome a storm, and Hoffman’s world, together with our world, will be