Quants try investing like Socrates, with help from AI
Researchers are testing whether LLMs can use methods borrowed from ancient philosophy to answer complex questions
Last year, Goose Hollow Capital, a global macro investment firm based in the New York area, asked GPT-4o to discuss the prospect of US rate cuts, the likely path of Japanese inflation and the outlook for solar stocks.
The exercise was for the education – and amusement – of Goose Hollow’s own people and its investors. And to make the activity more fun, the firm’s analysts framed the discussion as a
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