- Frank Tian
OpenAI, BloombergGPT, and Coca-Cola
As I wrapped up my book 2.5 years ago, I identified some opportunities in consumer credit risk management.
While I didnโt know about the work being done by OpenAI at that time, I narrowly focused on risk modeling and risk strategy.
I envisioned an AI bot with specialized risk domain knowledge, which makes risk management exercises faster and easier.
๐ Two years later, ๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ released ChatGPT.
Just in time for a world that badly needs more productivity to tame high inflation.
It came in a different form from what I envisioned - a fundamental large language model (LLM).
It still amazes me how it can present knowledge simply by focusing on predicting the next word.
ChatGPT being a generalist is already impressive. How about instilling the subject matter knowledge?
๐ Here comes the ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐, built on billions of token datasets from the financial documents by Bloomberg over 40 years.
It enhances finance-specific tasks, such as sentiment analysis and news classification, and unlocks new opportunities from the vast quantities of data available on the Bloomberg Terminal.
This is an example of domain-specific AI. I can imagine every consulting company, or company that owns a large amount of data, are busy building its own AI bots.
Anyone is building the credit risk AI?
๐ Recently Chamath Palihapitiya made an interesting analogy of OpenAI vs. domain-specific AI companies.
After the refrigerator was invented, the company benefiting most from the invention is not the refrigerator manufacturer.
It is the Buffetโs beloved ๐๐จ๐๐-๐๐จ๐ฅ๐.
Who is the new Coca-Cola in the AI era?
Which product is the new Coke that would occupy the refrigerator shelves?
I am glad to be at the moment - to witness the continuous advancement of human power and the shift of the business landscape.