E433: AlphaSense’s Chris Ackerson on AI, the Future of Finance & Finding Alpha
How I Invest with David WeisburdShow Notes
What happens to financial analysts when AI can do the work they used to spend all night doing?
Chris Ackerson is SVP of Product at AlphaSense, where he focuses on applying information retrieval, natural language processing, deep learning, and recommendation systems to search and discovery. We discuss how AI is changing the analyst role, why vertical AI can outperform general-purpose models in financial research, and why proprietary data may become one of the most important competitive advantages in AI. Chris also explains why LLMs hallucinate, how AlphaSense is using AI to conduct expert interviews, where humans still create investment alpha, and why the future of financial research may look less like software and more like an AI teammate that never sleeps.
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