How much do you use AI at work?

Sitting next to someone on the plane, and see they are straight up ripping from ChatGPT for their work. Curious if anyone here uses it on the job (creating emails, interpreting MD comments ect.)

***we all know the risks of using AI in IB - I’m not asking for someone to regurgitate their banks policies on AI. Asking a anon forum for a reason 😎

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If you know the banks AI policies, how do you think it's reasonable that anyone uses it consistently at their firm?

At many firms you literally cannot use most AI platforms. As in, the website is not available. Even stuff like Google search AI summaries, copilot etc is not available. Unless it's firm sanitised and made in house (and of course completely shit).

That said I occasionally use it to do quick research on complex topics that I have no time to do research on but I kind of need to understand. Has been pretty instrumental sometimes. And used it once for VBA but it's an absolute pain to migrate that information from whatever AI platform to my work environment. Obviously not emailing it to myself.

Where I am seeing it start to emerge too is places like BBG, Alphasense, other data platforms.

 

The security risk is true if the input is for firm content. Like you wouldn't be able to upload an esssay of sensetive material and ask ChatGPT to summarize it for you. But there are AI uses for research aggregation solutions with specific niche uses (came across Boosted.AI - AI-generated newsletter does decently well). These specific uses require no sensitive input, are obviously a lot less customizable since it's not so much as a chat bot than it is a generated report with a number of options, but it's a nice point of optimization. I would also say that firms have been adopting Microsoft's Copilot for meeting summarization as another widely adopted use of AI.

Now on the note of AI in Financial Desktop solutions, I've seen BBG, AlphaSense and some other auxillary solutions come out with their own form of research aggregation through recommendation or rank-based search or in-document scanning and analysis (ChatPDF). These are emerging and still being vetted, but they have been used on the street.

 

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If you know the banks AI policies, how do you think it's reasonable that anyone uses it consistently at their firm?

At many firms you literally cannot use most AI platforms. As in, the website is not available. Even stuff like Google search AI summaries, copilot etc is not available. Unless it's firm sanitised and made in house (and of course completely shit).

That said I occasionally use it to do quick research on complex topics that I have no time to do research on but I kind of need to understand. Has been pretty instrumental sometimes. And used it once for VBA but it's an absolute pain to migrate that information from whatever AI platform to my work environment. Obviously not emailing it to myself.

Where I am seeing it start to emerge too is places like BBG, Alphasense, other data platforms.

Nvm

 

Use it all the time. Firm pays my subscription.  It's great for quickly summarising the key headlines of big documents like a sector white paper or brokers notes or annual reports. 

Very glad we use it. We are looking forward to seeing if Rogo delivers even half of what it says. 

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