How do you guys use AI in your research process?

Will add my two cents to kick things off. The pace of innovation was pretty astounding and thought there would be enormous utility to this tool. But frankly it seems to have leveled off where I actually use it a little less than I would have thought

It helps to build foundational knowledge on a name, as well as gather data points quickly. But that's kind of it, the analysis is boiler-plate (which makes sense of course) and a lot of the time saving 'hacks' don't really end up saving much time

Curious to hear if experiences differ across other folks / firms. How do you use it today vs. 6mo ago or in general your normal pre-AI process?

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That's exactly my exp. Can cover more names since the 70% of work on a name that's table-stakes can be done 2-3x as fast now. Remaining ~30% has always been the area of differentiation even before AI, and I have not seen that be done by AI well (either myself or others are my firm)

It's reassuring from a fundamental equities career perspective. Also exciting in being able to turn over more rocks, though on flip side the boss always wants more productivity so have to balance that as well

 

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