The Information Welcomes Nathaniel Popper as Bureau Chief for AI, Enterprise Software. https://lnkd.in/eyVhMwfX
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https://lnkd.in/gmbrPV_Q Will AI be a bust? A Wall Street skeptic rings the alarm Jim Covello, the head of stock research at Goldman Sachs, has become Wall Street’s leading AI skeptic. Although I’m not a fan of Wall Street firms and their "predictions," skepticism, however, is a superpower. Covello says: that driving up Highway 101 from San Jose to San Francisco this month, he counted nearly 40 billboards about artificial intelligence. Including one that promoted something called “Writer Enterprise AI” and another for “Speech AI.” This was fresh evidence, he thought, of an economic bubble. “Not that long ago, they were all crypto,” Covello said of the billboards. “And now they’re all AI.” Also similar to when it was dot.com everything. “AI services reviewed were costly, cumbersome and not smart enough to make employees smarter,” he says To create AI businesses, experts predicted $1 trillion would be spent on data centers, utilities and applications. Covello thought those costs made it impossible for the industry to inexpensively solve real-world problems, which is what internet companies did decades ago. He reviewed a service that used generative AI to automatically update analysts’ spreadsheets with companies’ financial results. He said it saved his analysts about 20 minutes (nothing to write home about) per company but cost six times as much money. In short, he concludes that if something is going to cost you $10 to get $1 of return, that math simply can’t work in the real business world. Covello predicts that the AI boom will lose steam when the companies that are adopting the technology cut spending after their profits dip. Hype can only sustain something for so long, before reality and commonsense kicks in. “Overbuilding things the world doesn’t have use for, or is not ready for, typically ends badly.” @applied intelligence | ai
Will AI be a bust? A Wall Street skeptic rings the alarm
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Robin AI Head of Communications, boards and moderating. Past: Axios, Politico Playbook, presidential speechwriter, tech spokesperson
Can’t share enough praise for Evident Insight’s AI forum yesterday -- kudos to Alexandra Mousavizadeh Annabel Ayles (Shepherd-Barron) and team. James Clough and I had serious high quality chats on-stage and off. Thanks for the food for thought Stuart Russell and Dr. Jochen Papenbrock – NVIDIA’s got a smart approach not only to their core chip business, but to the role community models and software generally will play in their AI future. Was great to hear how much folks like Sameer Gupta at DBS Bank and Zachery Anderson at NatWest are industrializing AI: Proof of concept timeline at NatWest now compressed from “24 months on average to something more like 90 days” since 2020. Manuela Veloso, head of AI research at JPMorganChase told me that we need to see AI models starting to act on their own in finance: an Agentic immediate future. (Please let the AI deal with my email!), but she’s worried humans aren't willing to change quick enough to make use of the tech that’s starting to arrive. “If you believe in an AI future, you have to build it first,” Tony Kim, head of tech sector fundamental equities at BlackRock told me. So if you want a practical set of AI tomorrow, you need to keep aiming to AGI longer-term. He thinks we’re barely into the third layer of 7-layer tech stack (chips, cloud, models, data, applications and services, AND humans). You can watch each panel session here: https://lnkd.in/e4WNiu_2
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We're only at the very early stages of AI transforming finance, but there's a lot coming down the pipeline, according to the more than 200 industry leaders who gathered at yesterday's Evident Insights AI forum ⤵️ Robin AI's here to help make sure legal teams play their part in the revolution.
Robin AI Head of Communications, boards and moderating. Past: Axios, Politico Playbook, presidential speechwriter, tech spokesperson
Can’t share enough praise for Evident Insight’s AI forum yesterday -- kudos to Alexandra Mousavizadeh Annabel Ayles (Shepherd-Barron) and team. James Clough and I had serious high quality chats on-stage and off. Thanks for the food for thought Stuart Russell and Dr. Jochen Papenbrock – NVIDIA’s got a smart approach not only to their core chip business, but to the role community models and software generally will play in their AI future. Was great to hear how much folks like Sameer Gupta at DBS Bank and Zachery Anderson at NatWest are industrializing AI: Proof of concept timeline at NatWest now compressed from “24 months on average to something more like 90 days” since 2020. Manuela Veloso, head of AI research at JPMorganChase told me that we need to see AI models starting to act on their own in finance: an Agentic immediate future. (Please let the AI deal with my email!), but she’s worried humans aren't willing to change quick enough to make use of the tech that’s starting to arrive. “If you believe in an AI future, you have to build it first,” Tony Kim, head of tech sector fundamental equities at BlackRock told me. So if you want a practical set of AI tomorrow, you need to keep aiming to AGI longer-term. He thinks we’re barely into the third layer of 7-layer tech stack (chips, cloud, models, data, applications and services, AND humans). You can watch each panel session here: https://lnkd.in/e4WNiu_2
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Financial Services Could Drive Next Round of AI Adoption
Financial Services Could Drive Next Round of AI Adoption
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AI has increasingly intersected the digital asset space - experts say we must develop practices for institutions to mitigate the risks of AI-generated work. Blockworks https://lnkd.in/efxpWtjb
Security implications of AI in the crypto space
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I am betting high on the fact that despite Eric Schmidt is saying in his recent videos, we are reaching an asymptotic gain in what LLMs are absolutely capable of. I even wonder if we did not even get at least 90% of potential benefits so far in terms of wow effect. Now it is just "spreading horizontally" across usecases and will still deliver lots of changes and business upgrades, but we are just consuming more GPU but not really inventing new paradigms. The Wow effect is quite over, and now we are just keeping the superstition (ever Hyper-stition) than "It is gonna be huge, you are not ready, you can't expect what is coming, etc..." and I think it is not beneficial for the market. That makes valuation too high, and too much money expectations to sustain the promise. AI now has to deliver at huge scale to survive the returns Investors are demanding. It reminds me of "blockchain" promises that never delivered, and that have killed the potential of an awesome technology that had its usecases, but not more than its usecases. Especially for AI, I bet that also because of the "AI winter" facing us, as the fact we already trained on all publicly available data, and the new fresh data to train models is lot harder, longer and costly to get, through large deals and long negociations wih copyright owners. The worst is when I see companies trainings LLM on already generated data because of the lack of fresh "brain produced data available", the "Model Collapse" is around the corner. This paper on Nature that Steven Willmott shared in his Steampunk newsletter is interesting in that aspect.
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature
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One of the challenges for banks looking to fully leverage #AI is the lack of developer capacity. Therefore, freeing up developer resources is crucial for banks to make the most of AI opportunities in the payments industry. Check out the Celent report on harnessing AI in payments with MongoDB and Icon Solutions. 👉 https://lnkd.in/df5a8apb
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Important think piece on the limitations and fad status of AI. https://lnkd.in/eDSe7cjH
Will A.I. Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm.
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No-code AI is transforming the #fintech industry, making advanced analytics accessible to all. At the recent Dublin Tech Summit, #Bobsguide had an exclusive interview with Hrvoje Smolic 🔮, Founder and CEO of Graphite Note, to delve into the transformative potential of no-code AI in financial services. Click the link below 👇 to read the full Q&A, discover the game-changing benefits of no-code AI for fintech companies, and explore future trends set to drive this transformation even further. #NoCodeAI #Fintech #AdvancedAnalytics #DataInsights
Q&A: Hrvoje Smolic on how no-code AI could be a game-changer for the fintech industry | bobsguide
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🌐 Exciting Announcement: Join us on March 6th at 11 AM (CMT) for our upcoming MongoDB webinar - "Using AI to Unlock New Opportunities in Payments"! 🚀 Dive into the world of AI and discover its transformative potential in the banking sector, especially within the dynamic realm of payments. 🌍 🔍 What to Expect: - Insights from Celent's latest report, "Harnessing the Benefits of AI in Payments." - Uncover why AI and advanced analytics are topping the charts as key priorities in the technology investment agenda. - Explore various AI use cases across back, middle, and front-office operations, driving innovation in the payments landscape. Mark your calendars and register now to secure your spot! 📅💡 🔗 Register Here: [https://lnkd.in/duzYmezq] #MongoDBWebinar #AIinPayments #FintechInnovation #TechInvestments #FutureOfPaymentshttps
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