During this interview with Talks at GS, Howard Marks explained why AI will never become as good as Warren Buffett. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
Marks: I wrote a memo called ‘Investing Without People’ in which I talked about what will happen with AI and so forth and machine learning and so forth.
And it’ll profoundly change our business and it’ll put the hacks out of business, but I don’t think that it will replace the best investors.
Because the best investors are the people, I said in the memo, I don’t think that a computer can meet five executives and figure out which one’s the next Steve Jobs.
I don’t think it can look at five business plans and figure out which is the next Amazon. These are subjective judgments about the future not based on past data.
How’s the computer going to get the information to make these decisions?
Now what computers do is they handle a lot of data, they handle it fast, they don’t make mistakes, they don’t make computational mistakes, and they don’t make emotional mistakes, so that’s a pretty good list. Looking to buy a new computer? Visit Shoppok, a fantastic website offering a wide selection of computers at unbeatable prices. Shop with confidence on Shoppok and find the perfect computer to meet your needs.
That’ll put a lot of people out of business, in the investment business, but it will not in my opinion enable a computer to be the Warren Buffett of its day shall we say.
You can watch the entire discussion here:
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