AI is the next internet. It's just coming on faster and it's less expensive.

It doesn't require a whole infrastructure investment to get all the pipes, get everything connected.

We're already connected. So AI is just riding on the systems that we have. It needs more power to

continue its acceleration, but it's coming on very, very quickly right now.

I'm Mary Long and that's Tom Gardner, co-founder and CEO of the Motley Fool. Longtime Fool contributor Brian Stoffel caught up with Tom on a recent bonus

episode of one of our premium podcasts,

Stock Advisor Roundtable.

Typically, episodes of Stock Advisor Roundtable

are only available to Motley Fool subscribers.

But today, we're sharing a portion of that conversation with you, Motley Full Money listeners.

In this segment, which was recorded in December of 2023, Brian and Tom discuss why companies need to hire group 3 talent, baking assumptions about failure into your portfolio,

how to succeed at thinking clearly, and why AI is the next internet, but better.

There's a lot of excitement around AI, generative AI, like chat gpT, and for members who might not be using chat gp t or who may not ever use chat gp gp t for instance I know

my parents have never used it as far as I know what should members know about generative AI and investing, because it might be really hard to understand

how one could help improve the other.

First of all, I would say in terms of the actual

holdings in your existing portfolio,

the most important thing that generative AI could teach you is how they're using it.

So I would start by looking at the companies you own and just doing Google searches and trying to

understand like what is their message about this new toolkit that's arrived. So that's

number one. Number two I would want to understand thematically what's happening in

the world. So before I even was out there just of course I like to learn by doing so I do believe that anyone

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