Finance is better than tech at withstanding AI

Based on new research, I'm assuming Finance is one of the few high paying jobs with a low correlation to AI replacement given its high sales nature. Anything coding related shows high correlation with falling victim to replacement AI, because of its pretty standard ability to learn and process logical patterns.

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AI is overrated in general. There will always be people creating the models.

Operations across all industries is what’s at risk. The product to watch out for is the “excel” of data aggregation and validation. So products like tableau and alteryx.

 
"Chunkybannanas"There will always be people creating the models.

That's kind of the point of AI. There won't always be people creating the models.

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Yep. The entire premise of Machine Learning is exactly this. The algorithm can iterate itself and "learn" from each iteration. There's studies on discrete, iterative models going away and being replaced by differential models, which are much more akin to the human brain.

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” - Nassim Taleb
 
"leonardo dicaprisun" DB wants to automate back office jobs but then again they have been axing jobs throughout the summer. Interesting to see if this will actually work

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Surprised this hasn't been happening at a larger scale earlier across all banks. I guess it's not much of a surprise considering how bad the tech platforms or whatever you would call them are across banks.

 

Maybe this is just the experimental stage and not scaled accordingly however with the success of automating tasks I give it by 2024 until every bank begins to fully axe BO jobs.

 

I want to read the full study before actually replying- but at first glance I was thinking something seems off with certain data points. I just looked at the law section and Clerks and Court Reporters are in the safe zone. Wtf? They seem pretty damn easy to automate. Voice recognition is getting better, not hard to take voice and turn it into typing.

Not saying this discounts the study, just something I noticed right off the bat. I will read in more detail after work.

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” - Nassim Taleb
 
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What's with all the dick measuring posts between tech and finance?

 

Vast majority of this board is undecided target school high school/freshman/sophomores. This is the only demographic that could seriously be considering two completely different careers.

Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes.
 

Regarding coding, we’ve seen this advancement for some time.

For loops made it possible to iterate through an array of data. Then recursion made that easier and faster. Then algorithms. Now we see discrete machine learning taking it to another level. We’re beginning to see differential machine learning take off. Code advances. The difference is now it can be written to make inferences with abstract data.

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” - Nassim Taleb
 

People have no clue what AI can/cannot do and have some Matrix style future in mind. AI can barely do very specialized tasks after a ton of tweaking and tuning to make it work. We are decades away from a real artificial intelligence. So forget the idea of sentient computers, AI will have an impact on jobs but for very specific tasks which are not creative in nature. So no, M&A will not be replaced by AI in the next 50 years for the relationship nature of it. Nor will be replaced all the sales roles in S&T. Trading is already electronic for a lot of stuff but the structured desks will always need someone to come up with the ideas for clients and to trade it. On the contrary AI is already impacting model validation and risk management to an extent, but the biggest impact wil be on the "administrative" jobs, like those who process stuff (e.g. PnL) and documents for the bank. Anyone in S&T front office will just have to learn some ai skills since banks are for instance starting to prototype some derivs pricing models based on ML, but that's it in my opinion.

For tech, well the ML hype is causing a boom in the demand for data scientits, so I would say it actually benefits someone who wants to do tech.

Bottom line: if you want to do banking do it, since IB and PE will not be replaced by AI in your working lifespan. If you want to do tech, even better: study ML and go work in the field with an inflated salary just because the role says "data scientints" or "ML engineer".

 

Regarding your last paragraph, I agree there is a lot of hype from people who don't really understand it. However, I think Google, Tesla, and Microsoft have amazing AI teams. Google makes some real breakthroughs in the field.

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” - Nassim Taleb
 

Of course they do. They have amazing engineers, mostly coming out of top phd programs like CMU, Stanford, etc. and those are the only ones actually worth the hype. But even here, we are decades away from a sentient computer (if it will ever exist).

My critique goes to all those companies that hire data scientists just to tick a box in front of upper managament but which don't have the infrastructure to use it and where the results of these teams are at least questionable. I think that if you want to do data science you have to do it well (big enough team, fast systems, vast and most importantly high quality data), and most companies who start to employ ML don't do that. They just hire a couple of DS or ML grads who will produce close to zero results.

 

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