AI & Financial Services with Michael Cullum, Bud Financial

Understanding customer transactions is the Holy Grail of the financial service industry. For Bud Financial, this involves turning ‘dark’ data into usable data, which it is doing by developing domain-specific, custom-trained large language models.

Last year, we reported how the fintech is using AI. In this follow-up podcast, Bud’s VP of engineering, Michael Cullum, reveals more, with advice for others who are earlier on in their AI journeys.

“The key thing is to validate as quickly as possible: exactly what makes sense and what doesn’t so you can take those learnings into your processes as quickly as possible,” he says.

More broadly, we talk to the software engineer about sustainability and AI and whether he thinks that all business problems can be solved through code and algorithms.

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