How can investors benefit from advances in AI?

Likely to lose its edge

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For decades, investors have embraced new technology to find an edge. Developments in AI are exciting, but investors seeing this as a new way to beat the market may be disappointed.

Since ChatGPT launched in September last year, talk of AI has run rampant. Depending on the point of view, recent AI developments may seem the beginning of the end, like Terminator's hostile Skynet, or the biggest leap in technology since the internet - capable, for example, of discovering breakthrough medicines and helping paraplegics to walk. Stock Spotlight: $1trn Nvidia 'go-to solution for generative AI' However, the application of AI is neither new nor typically as dramatic in typical deployment as recent headlines would have you believe. And, from an investment standpoint, ar...

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