Why Does a Bank Need a Chief Scientist?

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This article is brought to you by Capital One.After five years leading natural language understanding and eventually the entire Alexa AI organization at Amazon, Prem Natarajan made a nontraditional move: He became Chief Scientist at a bank. Not just any bank: Capital One, a financial institution serving over 100 million customers, helping everyday Americans manage their financial lives.For Natarajan, a veteran of DARPA-funded research and academia who had watched machine learning evolve from tas

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