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AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time'

27 pointsby 1h agoft.com
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32m agoHN ↗

Article is just a vague summary of https://www.saturnos.com/report/artificial-authority

Anecdotally, current models seem to be decent at general personal finance principles - certainly better than the majority of personal finance education that people get exposed to unless they seek it out and read a variety of books and sources. But I wouldn't trust them with direct decision making with actual money due to the training lag time on current tax policy, etc.

22m agoHN ↗

I would prefer to use agent-assisted python scripts that chatbot.

18m agoHN ↗

Agreed, this works really well for me. Double check the math/python, execute many times without a LLM that can change o

18m agoHN ↗

I like how FT makes me accept cookies from their 46 “technology” (advertising) partners before showing me that the article is behind a paywall anyway.

12m agoHN ↗

You actually like that? I find it kind of annoying.

8m agoHN ↗

No they do not like it, it is a figure of speech to underline how much they do not like it.

4m agoHN ↗

Single shot or with reasoning enabled? My experience is that reasoning dramatically reduces hallucinations and improves output quality. I don't trust models without it.