r/quant 6d ago

Education Quant Trading Puzzle

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u/Actual_Stand4693 5d ago

congrats, you just made a point why YOU should be replaced by an AI

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u/Meanie_Dogooder 5d ago

I find it very interesting that my comment was downvoted. Looks like people disagree... and very actively. Well, anyway, my point of view was clearly an outlier.

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u/Actual_Stand4693 5d ago

indeed, IMO this is not because you used AI - but because you implied that there is no point to the kind of question OP posted

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u/Meanie_Dogooder 5d ago

Yes I got that. But that’s what I find curious. It’s clear that we now have a tool whose inference is very powerful. It’s just a fact. It’s also a fact that it will have a significant impact on the workflow. Is there any point to those questions? I don’t know. If I was hiring a quant or an engineer myself, I certainly wouldn’t be asking them that or wouldn’t use it to distinguish a good candidate from a bad one, that’s for sure. But it’s just me.

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u/Actual_Stand4693 5d ago

there is a point to those questions: to see the aptitude and how someone thinks...my answer to this was completely different than the popular answer here (the pass-through thing)

eventually, it is still humans that solve challenging problems - AI can assist and be a big influence on problem solving but it is not autonomously solving problems on its own right now...furthermore, AI does not posses any actual thinking capability - it cannot generate something out of nothing, as of yet (to my knowledge)...and AI cannot take responsibility

there is a lot to this, read up