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Shah: OpenAI tools replicate a decade of financial modeling skills in minutes

Neil Shah · How Generative AI Is Already Changing The Communications Field — With EZ Newswire · Jul 24, 2023 · at 4:00

Neil Shah, co-founder of EZ Newswire and former hedge fund investor, describes to Alex Kantrowitz how generative AI democratizes complex financial analysis for junior professionals.

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“Now you can plug something into to open AI and you can develop a model in minutes. So that's taking probably something like 10 years of work and being able to replicate it in maybe not the perfect capacity, but you can get pretty darn close in, in, you know, in, in fraction of the time. It means that if you're evaluating a deal, it's going to be far easier for you to evaluate with less resources. It certainly levels the playing field from, you know from a second, third year analyst who might not have the same experience if someone's been doing it for 10 years to be able to at least look at prospective opportunities in a more constructive way.”

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