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Can AI Software Replace a Bank Lookup?

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Arvind Krishna says replacing a database lookup for retail banking, or the work of closing the books, with AI-generated software is going to be hard. He puts the reliability bar at 10 to the minus 15. The examples already on the table were interaction rich, and he treats a lookup or a close as a different case.

Krishna says there is going to be a distinction in how easy replacement is. A digital twin would have to run for years before a cutover. All-In's reply is that there is no cost advantage to doing that.

Interaction-rich work sits on the easier side of Krishna's distinction. Retail banking lookups and closing the books stay harder to hand to AI-generated software when the reliability target is 10 to the minus 15.

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