Goldman Sachs Launches AI-Free Index 19
Goldman Sachs has launched an "S&P ex-AI" index (SPXXAI) that tracks the S&P 500 stocks not related to AI, offering investors a way to "hedge their exposure to the AI trade," reports Axios. From the report: "Excluding 'AI enablers' from the passive benchmark would eliminate the noise introduced by the AI hype," Louis Miller, head of the firm's equity custom basket desk, wrote in a note to clients about the new index.
The ex-AI index is a compilation of all the stocks in the S&P 500 that are not related to AI, also referred to as old-economy stocks. It's available exclusively to Goldman customers, created in collaboration with S&P Dow Jones Indices.
Taking all the AI out of the S&P doesn't leave much behind, as AI companies make up ~45% of the index, according to the note. Over the last three years, the S&P 500 is up 76%. The ex-AI index is only up 32% in that same time period.
The ex-AI index is a compilation of all the stocks in the S&P 500 that are not related to AI, also referred to as old-economy stocks. It's available exclusively to Goldman customers, created in collaboration with S&P Dow Jones Indices.
Taking all the AI out of the S&P doesn't leave much behind, as AI companies make up ~45% of the index, according to the note. Over the last three years, the S&P 500 is up 76%. The ex-AI index is only up 32% in that same time period.
Old Economy (Score:5, Insightful)
Non-AI stocks are now just the "old economy"? Maybe we should, maybe, wait until any AI company at all has actually made a cent of profit before we call them the "new economy" and relegate the companies who make real money and things the "old economy".
Re:Old Economy (Score:5, Interesting)
Let em cook. We're months off from a massive AI induced stock market crash at most. OAI will die, because its one of the most ludicrously overvalued company with literally no path to profitibility. When that happens, everyone else in the circle-jerk financing scheme will flee and shed a tonne of value.
Then we can put this AI nonsense on hold for a couple of decades till the wonks figure out its problems.
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Actually many AI companies are doing very well, just not the ones that get the news. AI has enabled robotics to do things like sort recycled trash and package croissants without making a crumb, plan Amazon delivery routes more efficiently, and translate dozens of languages on the fly. They're not valued in the billions, but they're viable profitable companies with rational business plans for the future. Can Boston Robotics AI program carry on a conversation with you? Hell no, but then ChatGPT couldn't t
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Lawsuits are flying from unauthorized use of copyrighted works to train the LLMs, communities are uniting to block data center construction, audiences are fiercely rejecting AI-generated content in various forms of media, prestigious law firms are getting slapped-down by judges for using AI-generated hallucinations in their court filings, students are using it to cheat on homework, creative workers of all varieties hate it for the threat it poses to their job security, and the world is drowning in slop.
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An index fund? (Score:5, Funny)
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War by the US will come before that. The only real motive to start wars these days is for dictators and wannabies to find "external enemies" to justify their clinging to or trying to capture power in their territories, and the US is now firmly in the second case - a losing wannabe desperate to cling to power. You think the Dubya "don't change dumb horses when crossing a river" example is lost on him?
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Silly (Score:2)
Much as I completely detest the modern AI hype, experience has shown over and over again that buying the whole market always outperforms buying only parts of it, over the long term.
For a second there, I thought *web search* index (Score:2)
I was wondering if they would actually be able to find results.
Well, it will be just as hard to find companies that aren't doing AI. I'm picturing a warehouse office with a few desks and stacks of paper everywhere, with one shared computer running Windows 95 to access vendor websites.
Too simplistic (Score:2)
AI or not, chip makers and IT service giants aren't going anywhere. While the Big 7 companies are overvalued due to AI, they don't just do AI, so picking stocks based on binary AI criteria is problematic. Things are clearer with the smaller AI-only companies, but they don't count as much in the big picture of index funds.