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Describing to Risk.net how large language models (LLMs) could transform hyper-personalised investing, Erkko Etula compares the models to the Nobel-winning economist Paul Samuelson.
Samuelson originated much of modern economic theory. But the comparison owes not to how much the models know, and instead to how they reason.
Etula, co-founder, CEO and CIO at startup Brooklyn Investment Group, worked for
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