Mind the Earnings Gap: Why LLMs Still Flunk Financial Decision-Making
In the race to make language models financial analysts, a new benchmark is calling bluff on the hype. FinanceBench, introduced by a team of researchers from Amazon and academia, aims to test LLMs not just on text summarization or sentiment analysis, but on their ability to think like Wall Street professionals. The results? Let’s just say GPT-4 may ace the chatroom, but it still struggles in the boardroom. The Benchmark We Actually Needed FinanceBench isn’t your typical leaderboard filler. Unlike prior datasets, which mostly rely on news headlines or synthetic financial prompts, this one uses real earnings call transcripts from over 130 public companies. It frames the task like a genuine investment analyst workflow: ...