• Deceptichum@quokk.auOP
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    I wonder if anyone has ever given AI access to their stock portfolio and a means to trade?

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      People have hooked up scripts to automate trade based on celebrities using certain hashtags or other data for years.

      A non insignificant portion of people has absolutely hooked up an ai to it. I don’t know any, but i take that bet in a heartbeat.

      Some will do it responsibly, as an experiment with money they are prepared to loose.

      Ai companies themselves might try this as an internal test, like how atrophic has claude managing a real vending machine (which got manipulated into selling tungsten cubes following customer feedback)

      Others have probably completely destroyed their own lives. A few may have lucked out.

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        Is that the same AI vending machine that attempted to alert company security (i think) when told it was going to be taken offline and also tried to set up physical meetings with people, even describing its outfit? Or am I thinking of another?

        All the creepy surrealistic AI stuff starts to run together for me after awhile lol

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          Its all creepy until you realize it was all just a chat with an LLM and not actually an agentic machine learning model or chain of models hooked into some custom APIs

          LLMs famously collapse into rediculousness once a conversation goes on too long. They’re now at the point where that takes more than a couple of paragraphs of text at least

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        I recall a story years ago that whenever Ann Hathaway has a bad news story Berkshire Hathaway also takes a dip because high frequency trading scrips are idiots.

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      Renaissance Technologies is arguably the world’s best hedge fund, and supposedly only uses AI based strategies.

      High Flyer are the founders of DeepSeek, and are also all in on AI, though their performance is more volatile.