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Putting AI anywhere near people’s finances without even being asked while being responsible for those finances is some next level negligence imho.

• tokioyoyo 4mo ago
  You’ll be surprised what people in PE, VC, banking, other financial institutions are doing with AI right now. It starts with AI summary of a balance sheets, followed by AI summary of quarterly financial reports, followed by… yeah.
  • gib444 4mo ago
    A great way to provide cover for even more fraud
• drstewart 4mo ago
  My bank uses XML for their internal tooling without even asking me. How is that even legal? I can't even imagine all the other tool choices businesses I interact with make without getting my sign off.
  • connicpu 4mo ago
    XML isn't stochastic
    • drstewart 4mo ago
      So? Did they ask me about it? I don't approve of it and I don't think it's secure enough for a bank. Absolute negligence.
      • sddsfsdfsd2 4mo ago
        You jest but I agree. Also I think the "stochastic" arguments is getting old. What if XML was stochastic? Does it matter if it is "stochastic" or does it matter if it is correct? You know my compiler generates a different binary every time I compile the exact same code. My CPU definitely is not fully deterministic yet it makes a nice show of it being so. I don't care and nobody cares as long as it works. And what "works" means exactly is quite a bit more involved than parroting "determinism".
        • connicpu 4mo ago
          I don't know what compiler you're using but our C/C++ builds are definitely deterministic given the same source files. We have CI tests to ensure this remains the case.
        • recursive 4mo ago
          The argument is getting old in the sense that it was first used longer and longer ago. However, it's still just as applicable as ever. Perhaps more. > Does it matter if it is "stochastic" or does it matter if it is correct? In this case, we can only determine whether it's correct after it's too late to do anything about it. So if it was correct, we can say it didn't matter, but only in retrospect.
          • bilekas 4mo ago
            > In this case, we can only determine whether it's correct after it's too late to do anything about it. If only there was a mental concept of doing things correctly the first time. At the very worst manageable. I understand your comment but I am tired of babysitting people to have some “cop on” and it is just getting worse. I’m a bit despondent.
            • recursive 4mo ago
              Despite the well-established mental concept of doing things correctly the first time, mistakes continue to be made. Perhaps by people unaware of the mental concept. I don't know what "cop on" means. I've been feeling a bit despondent about the situation as well.
        • bilekas 4mo ago
          I don’t think OP jests.
    • vntok 4mo ago
      Wait till you learn the bank routinely uses CSV as a non-ironic exchange format! That definitely is stochastic.
  • bilekas 4mo ago
    I really hope you’re working in a safe area. If you think XML, is anything like AI, you need to study a bit more about deterministic and non. Schemas, structures, compilers. In fact if you were my student, id make you create a compiler. Without ai. Edit: I try very hard to see others point of view, I’m starting to worry