⚡ Building ChatGPT for Finance — Joseph Kim, OpenAI's Head of Financial Services

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   Why Does ChatGPT for Finance Bundle Earnings Transcripts? at 4:26

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   Joseph Kim says ChatGPT for financial services bundles quarter earnings transcripts in-house because outside connectors failed too often. Full answer

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   How Is OpenAI Building ChatGPT for Finance? at 7:21

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   Joseph Kim tells Richard MacManus that OpenAI built most of ChatGPT for financial services on the ChatGPT plugin architecture, and that 95% of the work is… Full answer

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   What Finance Work Can ChatGPT Actually Do Today? at 10:03

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   Joseph Kim says the ChatGPT for financial services product OpenAI launched is a productivity tool for knowledge workers, and it assumes a human is always in… Full answer

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   What Finance Tasks Will OpenAI Take on in 2027? at 19:45

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   Joseph Kim says OpenAI will start to move finance work up the stack in 2027, from the task a junior analyst can do, to some of the tasks an associate can do… Full answer

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   Why Is There No Good Eval for Finance AI? at 22:50

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   Joseph Kim says there is no good eval today for financial work, and building one that actually measures the skill is much harder than it looks. Full answer

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