This reads like a fluff piece for Goldman Sachs and the startup Cognition. It’s running in a bunch of outlets concurrently.
Goldman gets to appear as being on the cutting edge by incorporating AI. The startup behind the agent GS is using, Cognition (who is seeking a $2B valuation), gets to be seen as effective and bolster their name recognition.
Lol, considering that the entire pricing and risk system of the company runs on a proprietary programming language, I'm pretty sure this is just publicity
RainyDayTmrw · 6h ago
I'm pretty sure this is a PR piece, too. In complete fairness, I've heard that they're doing a lot more Python lately.
CIO at Goldman Sachs, multiple "AWS businesses" started spanning "mobile, serverless computing, Internet of Things, and augmented and virtual reality". AWS businesses? What does that even mean? And the spread of sectors looks like it was precisely calibrated to be a Thought Leader.
Everyone grifter I know in Australia is publishing pieces like this. It's simultaneously all-in on AI hype while trying to have it both ways by insisting the human will always be central. No matter what you believe about AI, the set of assumptions you have to accept to confidently state that humans will absolutely remain central is so specific that you would only say this if you were a smiling conman.
If someone wants to believe it'll remove all jobs, fine, whatever. If someone wants to believe it'll do nothing, sure, okay. If you want to believe that it's the most revolutionary technology in human history and no one's going to lose their jobs, you're just transparently pretending to be trendy while simultaneously pretending to be human-oriented.
bediger4000 · 10h ago
I'm all for this! Goldman Sachs can spend their profits on LLM programming, and then pay even more to consultants when some edge case input triggers a problem! Win-win!
Goldman gets to appear as being on the cutting edge by incorporating AI. The startup behind the agent GS is using, Cognition (who is seeking a $2B valuation), gets to be seen as effective and bolster their name recognition.
Paul Graham’s “The Submarine” article seems relevant: https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
CIO at Goldman Sachs, multiple "AWS businesses" started spanning "mobile, serverless computing, Internet of Things, and augmented and virtual reality". AWS businesses? What does that even mean? And the spread of sectors looks like it was precisely calibrated to be a Thought Leader.
Or consider this piece: https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/fortune-we-mu...
Everyone grifter I know in Australia is publishing pieces like this. It's simultaneously all-in on AI hype while trying to have it both ways by insisting the human will always be central. No matter what you believe about AI, the set of assumptions you have to accept to confidently state that humans will absolutely remain central is so specific that you would only say this if you were a smiling conman.
If someone wants to believe it'll remove all jobs, fine, whatever. If someone wants to believe it'll do nothing, sure, okay. If you want to believe that it's the most revolutionary technology in human history and no one's going to lose their jobs, you're just transparently pretending to be trendy while simultaneously pretending to be human-oriented.