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Hello Connor, could you share your journey into AI and what led you to your current role at SRM? When considering my path to education and career, AI was one of the big domains (alongside biotechnology/genetics) which looked like they had the potential to transform society in my lifetime. I studied cognitive science and decision theory in university in part to stay close to developments in AI, and I steered my consulting career towards AI and automation during my time at Deloitte. I helped to build and scale Deloitte’s federal automation practice, and SRM brought me on initially to do much the same thing for them, which put me in a perfect position to expand SRM’s AI practice to focus on LLMs (large language models) and other transformer-based AI technologies when ChatGPT’s launch kicked off the current wave of interest and investment in the space. Read This Article: FinTech Interview with Connor Heaton Generative AI is Rapidly Transforming Technology – What Does This Mean for Financia...