ChatGPT has gone viral. Now Wall Street is flocking to AI.
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Phil Rosen
Feb 2, 2023, 18:26 IST
AI will become increasingly key on Wall Street.Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images
Hi. I'm Phil Rosen. Today's newsletter covers everything you want to know about how the viral ChatGPT language tool is colliding with the world of Wall Street.
Lundy Wright, partner at Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers and longtime Fed watcher, told me the key from Wednesday was Jerome Powell's emphasis on financial conditions being tighter now compared to a year ago.
"Similar to the FOMC meetings of the past few quarters, investors are demanding detailed, expected and absolute hawkish statements," Wright said. "Powell simply hedged statement after statement with conditionality, and the markets chose to focus on that as a sign that the Fed will not be hawkish going forward."
Now that you have something to say around the water cooler, let's get to the bots.
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1. Wall Street is clamoring to ride the ChatGPT wave, and investors are pouring into anything that has exposure to the budding artificial intelligence sector.
Take software firm Versus Systems, for example. The tiny B2B technology company skyrocketed more than 400% at one point on Wednesday after it announced a deal involving AI.
Expectations at the intersection of bots and finance are also burgeoning. A new JPMorgan survey showed 53% of traders believe AI will have the greatest influence on trading over the next three years.
Chris Natividad, chief investment officer of Equbot, is no stranger to this realm. He helps run the AI Powered Equity ETF, which launched in 2017 and leverages IBM's Watson supercomputer.
He told me on a call last night that today's bots are only scratching the surface of what's possible.
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"We use AI with everything from maps to shopping and health screens, so to think it's not going to become a larger part of the investment space is a little bit misguided," Natividad said. "It's happening."
While many asset managers are limited to decisions based on traditional market data, AI can go through sentiment-based intel like tweets or online text.
"These tools are improving, and the operators that are using the algorithms are improving," Natividad said. "They'll become more accurate. The theoretical accuracy of a model is meant to improve, get better at picking assets."
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