New business idea - using AI to tackle banker loneliness

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I recently came across a few twitter posts about people on subreddits such as r/MyBoyfriendIsAI. It gave me a brilliant idea.

Bankers work extremely long hours, and they have continuous access to barely-functioning internal LLMs that barely do anything from a value-added perspective. These LLMs are improving very slowly, but are generally frustrating for users.

Instead of pushing to build LLMs that can make powerpoint presentations or build models, why don’t banks build their LLMs to emotionally support their analysts?

The impact would be massive and significant. The LLMs, trained to be sycophantic to a degree not seen since early GPT4o rollout, would empower analysts to work harder, deliver shareholder value more efficiently, prioritise stoicism, and push forward in their careers uber alles. It could also work, of course, as a monitoring system of employee morale.

What does everyone think?

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Clearly a brilliant idea. If you cannot fully automate the work of an analyst then render the analyst as close to an automaton as possible using AI emotional guile

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We must unleash ourselves from the association of the “analyst” with the “human”

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I may be old, but wouldn’t require the AI to take the kids out clubbing from time to time?

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Gentle reassurance that deferred gratification is the appropriate path would probably suffice

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Tesla robots are evolving nicely IMO I think 2030’s interns will be doing shots with them

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The market is there as people are already marrying AI bots:

‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots"

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First there were feelings, then there was language. AI reverses this equation

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Likely some of them might end up in a ‘better place’. Feels like we need a new insurance product: Insurance against being bamboozled by AI. [A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home.]

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Unlikely that this is a sustainable thing in the long term. IBM’s logic will likely be baked into law:

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”

I doubt AI will ever see legal consequences.

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Why don’t these people marry their dog or their house? If they want unconditional love.

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A dog’s love is conditional upon a plentiful supply of biscuits

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