Financial Markets: The Ultimate Testbed for Intelligence (Susquehanna)

Financial markets provide a rigorous, dynamic testbed for developing and evaluating artificial intelligence. They couple prediction and action under real risk, exposing how easily models overfit and how rarely they generalize when conditions change. Unlike language models trained on static data, markets reward systems that adapt as the “language” of price and behavior evolves. In this talk, we argue that quantitative trading offers a principled framework for studying and building truly adaptive intelligence.