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Emerging technologiesDecember 20 2023

How will GenAI, the buzz tech of 2023, affect banking?

Chatbots, large language models and copilots augmenting jobs: how will AI upend financial services and how fast will it happen?
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The release of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) chatbot ChatGPT by OpenAI in late 2022 set many in the world on a path to experimentation, and placed discussions around the promise and future of AI use in society front and centre on many news sites. And the banking world was not immune to the GenAI hype.

While development around AI has been ongoing for decades, it has now moved from a research topic to a pivotal technology. The amount of data available within financial services lends AI to many banks’ digital strategies. However, 2023 really did feel like a year where many of those strategies were enacted, if not accelerated.

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Liz Lumley is deputy editor at The Banker. She is a global specialist commentator on global financial technology or “fintech”. She has spent 30 years working in the financial technology space, most recently as director at VC Innovations and architect of the Fintech Talents Festival, managing director at Startupbootcamp FinTech London and an editor at financial services and technology newswire, Finextra. She was named Journalist of the Year for Technology and Digital Finance at State Street’s UK Press Awards for 2022.
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