Goldman Sachs made a big hire from Amazon to lead its artificial-intelligence efforts (GS, AMZN)

LinkedIn Goldman Sachs has hired Charles Elkan, a former machine-learning expert at Amazon, to run the bank's artificial-intelligence efforts. Elkan will build and lead a "center of excellence to drive machine learning and artificial intelligence strategy and automation," the bank said in an internal memo viewed by Business Insider. Goldman Sachs has hired a senior employee from Amazon to run the bank's artificial-intelligence efforts. Charles Elkan has joined Goldman Sachs as a managing directo...