What is the point of this?

LLMs are trained to predict the next word in a text. In what way, shape or form does that have anything to do with stock market prediction? Completely ridiculous AI bubble nonsense.

No it isnt. Next word prediction is what humans do to communicate anyway so the criticism isnt valid. Except you do that for your own sentences (if you do it for others its considered rude :) ).

Anyways this criticism is now dated given that modern day LLMs can solve unseen reasoning problems such as those found in the IMO.

It does have something to do with the stock market, since its about making hypotheses and trading based off that. However, I'd agree that making a proper trading AI here would require reasoning based fine tuning for stock market trading actions. Sort of like running GRPO taking market feedback as the reward. the article simply cant do that due to not having access to the underlying model weight.

shhh. We need more of these as counter-parties to improve alpha.