Andrew Goodwin: Why AI is far from the cat's whiskers for financial advice

Why would someone trust AI to plot their financial future when it can't even get a daft snapshot of a cat right?

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Andrew Goodwin explains (and illustrates with a cute cat picture) why he continues to advocate a "best of both worlds" approach to AI...

An acquaintance of mine belatedly discovered the wonders of ChatGPT a few weeks ago. Finally able to revel in the awesome power of artificial intelligence, he thought long and hard about how to harness its mind-boggling might. He eventually decided to generate some amusing images of his cat. Hey, we've all been there. Needless to say, this sort of exercise hardly pushes cutting-edge AI to its limits. Yet it proved sufficient to demonstrate what's good and what's bad about the technology that's rapidly reshaping our lives, our industry and the wider world. The first challenge was to...

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