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Rob Goldstein

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382 total appearances

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

It's not clear to me we've entered the first inning of the actual enterprise implementation.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

I still think the national anthem is sort of being played.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

And I think that the actual overhang between what the models can do

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

And the fact that this is technology that needs to be implemented, it requires organizational design, business process reengineering.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

Like implementing technology is hard and takes time.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

And we haven't even started that enterprise implementation yet.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

Well, let me start out by saying we haven't described it as a black box.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

No, not you.

Odd Lots
BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

So we'll come back to that in a minute.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

But importantly, AI as a technology is not new.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

I wish I knew the exact year.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

But the AI lab at MIT was created in the 1950s.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

We started our AI lab in 2018.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

So these methods have been used for a long time.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

At a very sort of simple level that I'm sure would offend a lot of people, you could think about old AI was about numbers, new AI is about language.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

And the language element of it creates all sorts of... humans communicate much more through language than numbers, so it creates a whole host of other unintended consequences.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

But when you look at a platform like Aladdin as an enterprise platform, and by the way, I would make a cohesive argument.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

Everything I'm saying, you could make the same case with regard to the Bloomberg terminal.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

I knew this was going to come up in this conversation.

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BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

But I waited the first couple of minutes.