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Latest Read: The Predictive Edge

The Predictive Edge: Outsmart the Market using Generative AI and ChatGPT in Financial Forecasting by Alejandro Lopez-Lira.

The Predictive Edge: Outsmart the Market using Generative AI and ChatGPT in Financial Forecasting by Alejandro Lopez-Lira

Alejandro holds a MA and PhD in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania.Today he is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Florida.

In the AI-accelerated landscape of financial technology, he is taking a view that legacy quantitative methods face diminishing returns. So here, a new “predictive edge” in Large Language Models has arrived. Perhaps a mix of theory and practice for integrating AI into your investment strategies.

Financial forecasting traditionally relied on structured data: price charts, earnings ratios, and trading volumes. Alejandro is now showing the market’s greatest inefficiency resides in unstructured data. Every day a large volume of news, earnings call transcripts, and regulatory filings have broken those legacy forecasting models. Enter ChatGPT and LLMs which hold the ability to process and perform sentiment analysis at a scale previously impossible.

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Latest Read: The Upside of Disruption

The Upside of Disruption: The Path to Leading and Thriving in the Unknown by Terence Mauri.

The Upside of Disruption: The Path to Leading and Thriving in the Unknown by Terence Mauri

Terence is the founder of Hack Future Lab. He is a former Director at Saatchi & Saatchi and McKinsey, and columnist for Inc. Magazine’s Future Proof column. He is Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a visiting professor at both IE Business School in Spain and an Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence at London Business School.

Terence is introducing the “fail principle” and seeking to move organizations to relook at failure as a source of data and resilience. He sees failure as a source of innovation.

Organizational leaders who embrace this will not only survive disruption but leverage this for long?term value creation. Terence is sharing his key message of “unlearning” by stating “good leaders learn, but great leaders unlearn.”

So Unlearning must be a deliberate act by leadership. This including challenging assumptions, removing obsolete processes and introducing new behavioral models. The major obstacle to agility is the organization’s culture.

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Latest Read: Generative AI in Action

Generative AI in Action by Amit Bahree.

Generative AI in Action by Amit Bahree

Amit holds an MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Pune. He previously served as Chief Technology Innovation Officer at Avanade. He is also a co-author of Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation. Today he serves as a Principal Group Product Manager for the Azure AI engineering team at Microsoft.

Generative AI in Action certainly provides a high-level roadmap for integrating Large Language Models into organizational enterprise environments. He is linking the “magic” of AI’s hype cycle with the demands of production architectures across diverse organizations.

This is not a “how to use ChatGPT” guide for non-technical users. This is however a good book for experienced software developers, architects, and data scientists who are new to AI. It explains the core concepts from scratch and provides a learning path sans PhD in mathematics. So, generating quick prompts from poetry to dinner recipes, the demands of building enterprise, scalable AI services is rather challenging.

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Latest Read: Digital Wellbeing

Digital Wellbeing: Empowering Connection with Wonder and Imagination in the Age of AI by Caitlin Krause.

Digital Wellbeing: Empowering Connection with Wonder and Imagination in the Age of AI by Caitlin Krause

Caitlin holds a MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. She is the Founder of Mindwise and teaches courses on digital wellbeing, technology, and storytelling at Stanford University. She has also advised Google, LinkedIn, the US State Department on leadership and experience design.

Instead of viewing technology as the typical “necessary evil” to avoid where possible, Caitlin conveys a position that digital tools can be amazing resources for human growth when implemented with positive intention.

Digital Wellbeing presents readers with the innovative notion that technology needs alignment and enrichment. Caitlin shares the idea of a “Digital Wonder” suggesting that in the age of Artificial Intelligence that we all have an opportunity to use technology to expand both inner and outer connections. There is a unique view that we leverage the new advancements in technology to bolsert our humanity.

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Latest Read: NeuroAI

neuroAI: Winning the Minds of Consumers with Neuroscience Powered GenAI by A.K. Pradeep, Anirudh Acharya, and Rajat Chakravarty.

neuroAI: Winning the Minds of Consumers with Neuroscience Powered GenAI by A.K. Pradeep, Anirudh Acharya, and Rajat Chakravarty

A.K. holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Founder and CEO of Sensori.AI, Founder and former CEO of NeuroFocus, a consumer neuroscience company acquired by Nielsen. He was Founder and CEO of MachineVantage which focused on applying AI and machine learning to product development and marketing.

Anirudh holds a PhD in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics from the University of Nottingham and is Chief AI Officer at Sensori.AI. Rajat holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and is Chief Operating Officer at Sensori.AI.

Neuroscience-powered GenAi enables a very large impact on medicine to marketing, entertainment to education and much more. Blending neuroscience with AI can according to neuroAI place humanity at the center of GenAi. For anyone seeking to understand neuroAI; what it is, how it works, and of course how to put it to work for your organization to gain a competitive advantage within your markets.

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