We recently compiled a list of the Jim Cramer Discusses These 11 Stocks & Shares ChatGPT’s Flaws. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) stands against the other stocks Jim Cramer recently discussed.
In his latest appearance on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Jim Cramer commented on how he’s facing trouble using ChatGPT. In his. In previous remarks about OpenAI’s software, Cramer shared that he used ChatGPT regularly to research stocks before his programs. While he maintained that “I use ChatGPT all the time,” he added that “it was really bad yesterday.”
Cramer added that ChatGPT “was dumb; it was more stupid than Alexa.” He also shared specific examples of where ChatGPT failed to meet his expectations. According to him:
“They are so bad because I got caught using it for something I’m writing. And it was so wrong. It was the ‘return on Meta’ and it was like ‘Meta’s return since it came public was 17%’ and that was not even the CAGR it was just like 17%. 17%. I was like no, and I went back and said I think that’s wrong. And it said you’re right, its 300%.”
When co-host David Faber pointed out that the output from most AI chatbots has to be cross-referenced with each other, Cramer countered and pointed out that the process was too time-consuming. “But by the time I’m finished with that, I could have hand-counted it,” shared the CNBC TV show host.
He was also full of praise for the late actor Gene Hackman whose death shocked the media industry. Cramer recalled:
“Yeah I was a great friend of Gene for a very long time. He did move on. Uh from when he was a great partner of mine at my hedge fund. And he was a quiet genius. You’d learn from him every time. He came into my office one day. I happened to be a huge Gene Hackman fan. And he was in the lobby, and he said, can I see you, and I said listen nobody’s the wizard. But he was so thoughtful and great by the way in so many things that he did. For instance, he did a painting of me that I’ve always kept, that he did in early 2000. But a remarkable man, a kind man, obviously a great actor. One of the most humble people I’ve ever met. Never in a million years, I remember one time when my eldest said to him you are a great basketball coach and he said, no you see, that was a movie.”
He also recounted Hackman’s movies that he liked and commented on the contrast with the movies that Hackman actually liked. Cramer stated:
“It’s funny cause the movies that he loved, I told him I loved obviously Conversation, you know, I loved French Connection. The ones that he loved were very different. He loved Royal Tenenbaums, he loved things where he played . . . .but the best thing he ever said to me was, I was in a couple of deals, and he said, and they backfired, and he said, Jim, sometimes you just get had. Simple man, great man.”
Cycling back to the trade tensions between the US and China, he added the market is wondering what “the President going to do about China?” While admitting that “China’s not as important as it was, but it doesn’t matter,” Cramer added: “Because everybody in the end is concerned about what the President’s going to do.”
“I mean there are 18 friendly countries that are allowed unlimited selling. And they’re saying look, maybe that is arbitrary, and they’re to go over the President’s people about, how, to change those midnight rules that were put together by the Biden Administration right at the end of his term. So be aware that there’s a lot of moving parts, in NVIDIA, no moving parts in Snowflake.”
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s shares are down by 1% year-to-date after having shed 3.94% in late February. The stock dipped after investors fretted about the firm being caught in the crosshairs of trade tensions between the US and China. Particularly, Wall Street is worried about the Trump Administration’s tariffs in China impacting the firm’s bread-and-butter iPhone smartphone. Cramer also commented on these worries:
“Well that’s why Apple went down very badly yesterday. Because people said well wait a second, they, $500 billion expansion plan, but the fact is that if Taiwan is suddenly asked to be able to pay its fair way, or if we slap something on China, well I mean does that apply to Apple?”
Overall AAPL ranks 2nd on our list of the stocks Jim Cramer recently discussed. While we acknowledge the potential of AAPL as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than AAPL but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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