According to recent research from The Alan Turing Institute, Large Language Models (LLMs) could revolutionize the finance industry within the next two years. It’s projected that LLMs will improve efficiency, safety, and customer service in the sector by detecting fraud, generating financial insights, and automating various processes.
LLMs have the capacity to analyze large data sets quickly and generate coherent text. This ability has led to a growing understanding of their potential to enhance services across various sectors, including healthcare, law, education, and financial services. The latter encompasses banking, insurance, and financial planning.
The Alan Turing Institute’s report represents the first exploration into the adoption of LLMs across the financial ecosystem. It reveals that professionals in the sector have already started to use LLMs to support a variety of internal processes, such as the review of regulations. They are also assessing the potential of LLMs for supporting external activities, like delivering advisory and trading services.
The research involved a workshop with 43 professionals from major high street and investment banks, regulators, insurers, payment service providers, government entities, and legal professions. More than half of these participants are already using these models to enhance performance in information-oriented tasks, from managing meeting notes to cybersecurity and compliance insight. Additionally, 29% are using them to boost critical thinking skills, while another 16% employ them to break down complex tasks.
The finance sector is also establishing systems to enhance productivity through rapid analysis of large amounts of text. This aids in simplifying decision-making processes, risk profiling, and improving investment research and back-office operations.
The professionals surveyed envisage that LLMs will be integrated into services like investment banking and venture capital strategy development within two years. They also foresee LLMs improving interactions between people and machines. For example, the use of dictation and embedded AI assistants could reduce the complexity of knowledge-intensive tasks such as the review of regulations.
However, the respondents also acknowledged that the technology poses risks that will limit its usage. Financial institutions are subject to extensive regulatory standards and obligations, restricting their ability to use AI systems that they cannot explain and that do not generate output predictably, consistently, or without risk of error.
In light of their findings, the authors recommend that financial services professionals, regulators, and policymakers collaborate across the sector to share and develop knowledge about implementing and using LLMs. This should focus particularly on safety concerns. The authors also suggest exploring the growing interest in open-source models which could be used and maintained effectively, but with a high priority on mitigating security and privacy concerns.
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