When I was trading, policy wasn’t a priority. This attitude wasn't just mine; it was common throughout the bank. The entire organisation...

Tools like GPT-4 have gone from being a curiosity to part of the toolkit in less than two years.

Work in Treasury revolves around communication, with reading, writing, discussion, and analysis serving as the primary tools. Information...

What could ai mean for people working in Treasury?

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...

Treasury and dealing have undergone a remarkable change over the past four decades. What was once a field dominated by intuition,...

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...

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...

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...

The Calculator Analogy Back in the 1970s when I was at school, one of the prized possessions for many students was a Sinclair calculator....

The Challenge My mum loves reading, but she has read all the books in her bookcase at least twice. At 97, it's simply not feasible for...

It's a well-known but seldom-discussed fact: Board directors of financial institutions rarely read all the documentation originated by...

Last week I received a newsletter from Conor Grennan – The Infinite Focus Group: AI In Marketing he explained how to use AI to create...

When I was at school, I was fortunate enough to have an excellent English teacher, Tim Cornish. What made him exceptional was his ability...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...