Gold-Medalist Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them

A new installment of Silicon Valley’s most exciting game, Are We in a Bubble?!, has begun. This time around the game’s premise hinges on whether artificial intelligence technology is poised to change the world as the consumer internet did—or even more dramatically—or peter out and leave us with some advances but not a new global economy.

This game isn’t easy to play, and the available data points often prove more confusing than enlightening. Take the case of Cognition AI Inc.

You almost certainly have not heard of this startup, in part because it’s been trying to keep itself secret and ...