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> It seems really good for routine tasks, like high frequency trading, but maybe not so great for these big one-off deals which constitute many of the best investments.

I understand what you mean from an opportunity identification perspective, but you have to keep in mind that even the "big one-off deals" require routine tasks at a lower level to verify the merit of such deals. If you think about tasks like reviewing financial statements, AI could provide faster evaluation and potentially identify trends that would elude a human analyst. In any case, Buffett is known for avoiding investments in companies he doesn't deeply understand and I would bet the same stance holds for employing new technology in his investment process.




I don't see any reason to believe this isn't happening already. As old school as Buffett is (and the man is a legend in my eyes), it just doesn't seem a stretch to think that they're running at least some deep-learning-based analysis over the deals they consider.

Whether or not they give any weight to the output is quite something else, but it would be such a (relatively) trivial cost to get that answer that it seems less likely they'd not do it.


I'm pretty sure Buffett doesn't use that stuff. Although he reads the papers so he may pick up on things other people have done.




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