Strange: Successful compliance startups use AI copilots rather than autonomous agents
Angela Strange · When Regulation Becomes Code · Dec 16, 2024 · at 4:36
Angela Strange, General Partner at a16z, outlines how fintech founders mitigate hallucination risks when applying LLMs to complex regulatory frameworks.
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“Smarter entrepreneurs are getting around this in two different ways. One it's much more of a co-pilot versus a full angel versus a full agent. And then they're able to Test enough edge cases around that the likelihood of hallucination is very, very, very low based on how they fine tune the model to that specific regulation.”
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