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 Computers will not only be able to undertake complex mathematical equations but draw logical, nuanced conclusions Rebecca Burn Callander By Rebecca Burn-Callander 10:29PM BST 31 Aug 2014 Follow Robots will be running the City within 10 years, rendering investment bankers, analysts and even quants redundant, it has been claimed.
 Artificial intelligence is about to outpace human ability, according to Dave Coplin, a senior Microsoft executive.
 Computers will not only be able to undertake complex mathematical equations but draw logical, nuanced conclusions, reducing the need for human interference, he said.
 This will render certain professions redundant, while other “human only” skills will become increasingly valuable.
 “I believe in Moravec’s Paradox,” Mr Coplin, Microsoft’s UK-based chief envisioning officer, told The Telegraph, referring to the Eighties hypothesis discovered by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers.
 “This states that what we think is easy, robots find really hard, and what we think it really hard, robots find easy,” he said.
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 But, according to Mr Coplin, in 10 years people will no longer be required to manage these algorithms.
 Decisions will be taken directly by the artificial intelligence.
 “Everyone thinks of Terminator and Skynet [the computer that becomes self-aware and attempts to destroy mankind in James Cameron’s 1984 film] when I start talking about this, but technology affords us a tremendous opportunity to play to our strengths as humans, and stand on the shoulders of robotic giants,” said Mr Coplin.