Is ChatGPT a Financial Expert? Evaluating Language Models on Financial Natural Language Processing · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2310.12664/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTIs ChatGPT a Financial Expert? Evaluating Language Models on Financial Natural Language Processing — mentioned by gillesjacobshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39686244urn:hackerpapers:mention:2310.12664:39686244Tue, 12 Mar 2024 23:39:07 GMT<p>Of course BERT is an LM, I never claimed it wasn&#x27;t. It is just much smaller than what is now termed &quot;LLM&quot; which is typically an extremely large generative decoder-only transformer for general multi-language (often instruction and chat tuned). I was training and finetuned dozens of LMs back when BERT-large was considered a GPU memory issue and I have finetuned hundreds LMs over my NLP research and engineering career. I have even implemented Hidden Markov Model LMs from scratch (as an exercise mostly, performance was mostly bad even in 2015). When I used &quot;specific task&quot;, I meant specialized…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2310.12664/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CL