Finance Meets AI: A New Career Path Emerges

In the world of finance, things are changing fast. A financial analyst is now also training AI models in his spare time. He sees this as a smart move to stay relevant in a field that's quickly evolving. Two years ago, he had to guide AI models step by step to get them to do basic financial tasks. Now, he can just give them a bunch of documents and ask them to figure things out. It's a big leap, and it makes him wonder how much longer his job will look the same. He started training AI models in 2023. After a lot of job interviews with no luck, he got a message on LinkedIn. A recruiter was looking for finance experts to teach AI models. He was unsure at first, but he gave it a try. Turns out, he liked it. He got to use his finance background and get paid to help shape this new technology. Now, his days are long. He works his full-time job during the day and trains AI models at night and on weekends. He's seen these models get much better at financial analysis. It can take all day to come up with a prompt that can stump them. The pay is good, and he finds the work interesting. He's helping to build technology that will change every industry, including finance. By understanding how AI works, he's preparing himself for the future.

His journey in finance started in Ukraine. He worked as a stock trader and then moved to one of the largest investment banks in the country. He left Ukraine nine years ago and moved to Canada. After studying there, he became an analyst at CIBC. When war started in Ukraine, his family moved to the US, and he followed them to New York. Here, he started training AI models for a company called Remotasks, making $30 an hour. He later found out that was low pay. Soon after, he got a full-time job as a financial analyst at a large steel producer. He values projects and investments and analyzes how the economy might affect his company. He was then contacted by another company to do more AI training work. He now works on weekends and after his main job, around 15 to 20 hours a week. The work is project-based, but there's always something to do. The pay is good, ranging from $50 to $70 an hour for writers and $90 to $120 for reviewers. With his experience, he's seen pay go up to $160. This shows that AI still needs humans. His current work involves creating challenging questions for AI models. He writes prompts that are tricky but not ambiguous. As a reviewer, he makes sure the prompts are failing because of the model, not because of poor writing. It can take hours to write a task that triggers model failure. He enjoys this work and sees it as a hobby. He's hopeful that his combination of finance and AI experience will help him in the future. He believes that industry professionals will soon have AI bots doing their jobs. The professional's role will be to check the bot's work and take responsibility for the outputs. Those who know their subject matter well and can combine it with AI will do well in this new environment.

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