William Webster
Rethinking Treasury Policy
When I was trading, policy wasn’t a priority. This attitude wasn't just mine; it was common throughout the bank. The entire organisation...
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Barbican Consulting Limited
William Webster
Oct 229 min read
The Rate of Change
Tools like GPT-4 have gone from being a curiosity to part of the toolkit in less than two years.
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William Webster
Sep 245 min read
AI and Treasury - Are We There Yet?
Work in Treasury revolves around communication, with reading, writing, discussion, and analysis serving as the primary tools. Information...
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William Webster
Sep 177 min read
Could you be redundant?
What could ai mean for people working in Treasury?
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William Webster
Aug 274 min read
Trial and Error
One thing I’ve learnt about AI is that it can be very helpful, yet it sometimes falls short of the task at hand. This became clear during...
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William Webster
Jun 183 min read
Barrow boys to AI
Treasury and dealing have undergone a remarkable change over the past four decades. What was once a field dominated by intuition,...
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William Webster
Jun 103 min read
Overnight Problems
Issue at Hand A potential shift in the Bank of England's policy to stop paying interest on commercial bank deposits is becoming a live...
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William Webster
May 283 min read
Testing, one, two, three
After the release of GPT-4o earlier this week, I tried some of the standard tests I conducted on earlier models. The simple conclusion is...
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William Webster
May 144 min read
Brainstorming
I've been reading Ethan Mollick's new book "Co-intelligence: Living and Working with AI" It's an excellent read for anyone interested in...
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William Webster
May 73 min read
AI, Education and the Workplace
The Calculator Analogy Back in the 1970s when I was at school, one of the prized possessions for many students was a Sinclair calculator....
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William Webster
Apr 107 min read
Bridging the Gap: How Generative AI Can Transform Regulatory Compliance for Boards
It's a well-known but seldom-discussed fact: Board directors of financial institutions rarely read all the documentation originated by...
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William Webster
Apr 38 min read
AI Chief Executives
Last week I received a newsletter from Conor Grennan – The Infinite Focus Group: AI In Marketing he explained how to use AI to create...
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William Webster
Mar 212 min read
Strange Meeting
When I was at school, I was fortunate enough to have an excellent English teacher, Tim Cornish. What made him exceptional was his ability...
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William Webster
Mar 146 min read
Red, Amber, Green - GPT-4 Does Risk
I've noticed that GPT-4 is getting better all the time; you can do more, and the results are better. I decided to try a little test....
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William Webster
Mar 95 min read
Picture this
I've taken a screenshot of the notes from my previous blog and uploaded them to ChatGPT. Then I've asked ChatGPT to write using the...
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William Webster
Mar 310 min read
Why you need GPT-4
Introduction to ChatGPT If you haven't tried ChatGPT and are a bit lost about where to start, the following will help you. ChatGPT is...
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William Webster
Feb 274 min read
Create Your GPT in Minutes
Every time you use ChatGPT, you enter a prompt, which is a request for what you would like it to do. At a basic level, prompting is...
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William Webster
Feb 222 min read
ChatGPT writes in the vernacular
Here's an experiment with ChatGPT. I've asked it to re-write my blog in the vernacular. Is it easier to understand like this? The clarity...
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William Webster
Feb 212 min read
How I Write with ChatGPT - It's Simple
One of the misconceptions about generative AI is that you need to be a rocket scientist to use it, but nothing could be further from the...
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