The New York-based series Billions centres on the dodgy fictional hedge fund chief Bobby Axelrod and his investment firm, Axe Capital. The current third season sees one of the hedge fund management characters wanting to hire a quantitative analyst to develop an algorithm that uses data to determine what to invest in and when to do it.
How do Axe Capital's staff react? With fear -- that the algorithm will put them all out of a job.
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