
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
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This episode covers the launch and development of ChatGPT for Financial Services, OpenAI's first enterprise product tailored for the finance sector. The guest explains how OpenAI collaborated with design partners like Morgan Stanley and Evercore, why bundling curated data in-house was necessary to bypass high error rates in third-party connectors, and how they bridge research and deployment. The discussion also explores the role of human taste and judgment in AI model training, contrasting verifiable coding rewards with financial modeling, and outlines predictions for autonomous agency moving toward 2027.
Hosts introduce the episode, explain the keynote context, and set up the discussion about building ChatGPT for Finance.
Joseph Kim explains the new enterprise product, its features, and early partner feedback from Morgan Stanley and Evercore.
Discussion of how OpenAI integrates financial data into the main model, the importance of data control, and the role of research and deployment.
Exploration of safety measures, auditability, and designing the product to mirror human workflows in finance.
Kim explains how reinforcement learning with human preference is used to teach models aesthetic and contextual taste.
Kim describes how Codex provides 80% of needed functionality, and the remaining 20% is filled by enterprise‑specific customizations using the plugin architecture.
Challenges of creating reliable evals for finance, current gaps, and plans to build better benchmarks.
Vision for scaling AI from routine analyst work to higher‑level decision making, requiring more research and data.
OpenAI's hiring needs, roles, and how finance professionals can contribute to product and research.
Building Under One Roofstrategy
OpenAI combined product development, model harness creation, and research under one roof for the first time with their finance product.
The guest reveals that third-party Model Context Protocol connectors tested for financial data had error rates exceeding forty percent, forcing OpenAI to bring data ingestion in-house.
Factual Reliability vs Human Tasteinsight
Models have drastically reduced egregious factual hallucinations since 2022, but still lack the subjective human taste and aesthetic judgment needed for polished work.
Training Models on Human Tastestrategy
OpenAI trains models on aesthetic preferences by having humans evaluate pairs of slide decks to determine which layout looks better.
Saturated Financial Evalsdebate
When running GPT-6 on financial evaluations, OpenAI discovered the benchmarks were entirely saturated and compromised by incorrect answer keys and flawed prompts.
Hiring Subject Matter Expertsstrategy
To improve financial reasoning, OpenAI is actively hiring domain experts in investment banking, equity research, and asset management to guide researchers.
“I really do think that there's gonna be a billion dollar business built on top of a chat G P T plugin.”
“And that secret sauce might be data. It might be U I changes. It could be an integration.”
“Safety is super, super important.”
“The kind of egregious mistake that would get you fired, models are getting much better at and continue to get much better.”
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