'Huge amount' of AI hyperbole among industry

‘Everyone is talking about AI, but no one really knows everything yet’

Isabel Baxter
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There is a ‘huge’ amount of hyperbole in the industry around artificial intelligence (AI), delegates heard.

Speaking at the Personal Finance Society's Purely Paraplanning conference yesterday (8 May), AI data automation platform Saturn co-founder Rohit Vaish noted that the hyperbole around AI in the industry is both a good and a bad thing. "There is a huge amount of hyperbole around AI in a good way and a bad way," he said. "From people saying it will take over to the positives of it making our lives easier." Instead of the wording being that AI will take over the jobs of paraplanners, people should look at the positives and how it may create more jobs in the future, according to Vaish. ...

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