Mark Cuban says AI is ‘never the answer,’ it’s a ‘tool’

Speaking at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, tech investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban shared his thoughts on how AI technology can help small businesses outperform their competition. In short, he told the crowd that AI was not the answer, in and of itself, but is meant to serve as an aid that can help entrepreneurs by making it easier to get started growing their businesses and answering questions along the way. Cuban suggested that today’s entrepreneurs should spend “every waking minute learning about AI,” because of its potential. “There’s so much changing that rapidly,” he said, adding that it’s different for established businesses integrating AI compared with new businesses just getting off the ground. “It’s so much easier to start,” Cuban explained. “It went from — way, way back in the day — $5,000 for a PC…to if you just have a laptop and a connection to the internet, you can start anything,” he continued. “Now, you have a mentor — whether you use Perplexity, Anthropic C ... Read full article.