Bloomberg is testing a chatbot-style interface for its terminal to help finance professionals condense labor-intensive tasks, reports Joel Khalili of Wired.
Khalili interviewed chief technology officer Shawn Edwards about the effort. Here is an excerpt:
Bloomberg pitches ASKB as a form of agentic AI. On its face, it looks more like a chatbot interface than something that necessarily automates tasks. What is agentic about ASKB?
There are earnings that come out every quarter. My job as an analyst is to be prepared for what might come up in that earnings call. For each company I’m preparing for, I’m looking at how their price compares to their peers, searching through lots of documents, looking at their fundamentals, and on and on. During earnings season, I’m not sleeping.
With ASKB, I can create workflow templates. I can write a long query, and say, ‘Hey, here’s all the data I’m going to need. Give me a synopsis of the bull and bear cases, what the Street is saying, what the guidance is.’ Now, I want to schedule [the workflows] or trigger them when I see this or that condition in the world.
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