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Ulrich: Mastercard scores real-time transaction fraud in milliseconds using GenAI
“The product we have is called Decision Intelligence, and that's where in the milliseconds we have between when a transaction passes through our network from when you tap to buy something in a store, it passes through MasterCard to go to the issuer. We're provi…”
Ulrich: AI reasoning models increasingly decline to answer when uncertain
“It's not just the accuracy that is improving, but the percentage of time, the significant increase in percentage of time that those models will basically say, I don't know the answer to a question.”
Ulrich: Proprietary data and inference will differentiate future AI applications
“I do think that the use of data becomes a more critical differentiator. Inference becomes a more critical differentiator.”
Ulrich: Mastercard's Shopping Muse uses GenAI for online retail recommendations
“In personalization, we have something called Shopping Muse, which is basically enabling the in-store experience online. So you have a chatbot effectively where you can type in your own language and ask for recommendations. ... It's allowing you to interact lik…”
Ulrich: Mastercard uses RAG and internal databases for customer onboarding AI
“What we've done is we've created a digital assistant that uses RAG and points to all these technical databases, the Q and A's we've had over time, where we've tested and fine-tuned these models to enable customers to onboard our products easier by automating a…”
Ulrich: Mastercard brought seven external experts to brief its board on AI
“When we presented to our board of directors on AI in September, the way we structured is I had seven external speakers come in, right? To give different perspectives from an investor perspective. The CEO of one of the leading LLMs. We partnered with Databricks…”