In late January, the world of artificial intelligence went mainstream when popular online media company BuzzFeed announced it was planning to use artificial intelligence software called API to help it generate content. OpenAI, the company that created API, also made the more popular ChatGPT, released in November of 2022. API and ChatGPT have been used to write emails and create quizzes and listicles. It has even been used to write reports on popular books and other essay-style assignments for high school and college students. While we have all heard about the potential of artificial intelligence for years, BuzzFeed taking the plunge and using it to create content is a big deal.

The Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Thematic ETF (NASDAQ:BOTZ) provides exposure to companies that are involved in industrial robotics and automation, non-industrial robotics, and autonomous vehicles. The fund was created in 2016 and has a total expense ratio of 0.68% (4th cheapest among similar ETFs). Wisdom Tree and iShares provide similar offerings in the robotics and AI space with cheaper expense ratios. The fund has returned 3.84% per annum since inception, with an index tracking error of 0.44%. BOTZ is down more than 50% this year, suffering from sharp drawdowns in 2022 owing to rising rates and previously high valuations.

This has been a rough year for tech stocks--but there could be reason to hope for long-term growth. Market volatility, supply-chain issues and rising inflation have all contributed to the selloff. Morningstar research also suggests that big tech companies could see a significant hit to third-quarter earnings as a strong dollar eats into profits from abroad. Many exchange-traded funds that focus on tech-stock themes have had an equally rough go. The two largest semiconductor ETFs, iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) and VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH), were trading near 52-week lows at quarter's end.

Which robo advisor is best? This is a key question that investors must ponder as we begin 2020. The top robo advisors are beginning to assert themselves and disrupt the financial space. Fortunately, we've done the heavy lifting for you and compiled a list of robo advisors for the coming year. Each of these companies has established itself as a player in the growing robo advisor market, and Insider Intelligence predicts that robo-advisors will be managing $4.6 trillion by 2022.

A computer can trounce a human chess master and solve complex mathematical calculations in seconds. Can it do a better job investing your money than a flesh-and-blood portfolio manager? Investors willing to test that question can do so with a couple of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, that leave the investment decisions to a computer's so-called artificial intelligence, or AI. ETF Managers Group and Ocean Capital Advisors launched an AI-powered fund last month dubbed the Rogers AI Global Macro ETF that invests primarily in single-country ETFs. The fund's AI sifts through millions of data points from countries around the globe and uses what it learns to determine how best to allocate the fund's holdings.

A computer can trounce a human chess master and solve complex mathematical calculations in seconds. Can it do a better job investing your money than a flesh-and-blood portfolio manager? Investors willing to test that question can do so with a couple of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, that leave the investment decisions to a computer's so-called artificial intelligence, or AI. ETF Managers Group and Ocean Capital Advisors launched an AI-powered fund last month dubbed the Rogers AI Global Macro ETF (BIKR) that invests primarily in single-country ETFs. The fund's AI sifts through millions of data points from countries around the globe and uses what it learns to determine how best to allocate the fund's holdings.

A computer can trounce a human chess master and solve complex mathematical calculations in seconds. Can it do a better job investing your money than a flesh-and-blood portfolio manager? Investors willing to test that question can do so with a couple of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, that leave the investment decisions to a computer's so-called artificial intelligence, or AI. ETF Managers Group and Ocean Capital Advisors launched an AI-powered fund last month dubbed the Rogers AI Global Macro ETF (BIKR) that invests primarily in single-country ETFs. The fund's AI sifts through millions of data points from countries around the globe and uses what it learns to determine how best to allocate the fund's holdings.

A computer can trounce a human chess master and solve complex mathematical calculations in seconds. Can it do a better job investing your money than a flesh-and-blood portfolio manager? Investors willing to test that question can do so with a couple of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, that leave the investment decisions to a computer's so-called artificial intelligence, or AI. ETF Managers Group and Ocean Capital Advisors launched an AI-powered fund last month dubbed the Rogers AI Global Macro ETF (BIKR) that invests primarily in single-country ETFs. The fund's AI sifts through millions of data points from countries around the globe and uses what it learns to determine how best to allocate the fund's holdings.

Is artificial intelligence the next hot thing in ETFs? One big-name investor seems to think so. On Friday, ETF Managers Group filed for the Rogers AI Global Macro ETF (BIKR), blending two popular elements in finance--Jim Rogers and artificial intelligence. BIKR will track an index of single-country ETFs that was developed by Ocean Capital Advisors, a company headed by Rogers, the famous commodity investor and author of several best-selling books on the topic. Rogers' Ocean Capital will also act as the sponsor of BIKR.

First Trust Advisors has come out with its own artificial intelligence and robotics-related exchange traded fund to help investors gain exposure to the growth of innovative cutting-edge technology. First Trust recently launched the First Trust Nasdaq Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ETF (NasdaqGM: ROBT), which has a 0.65% expense ratio and is also the cheapest A.I. and Robotics ETF on the market. The lower expense ratio may be a way for the fund provider to better compete against other options in the space as the company comes late into the robotics and A.I. theme. First Trust Nasdaq Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ETF will try to reflect the performance of the Nasdaq CTA Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Index, which is comprised of companies engaged in the artificial intelligence and robotics segments of the technology, industrial and other economic sectors, according to a prospectus sheet. "It is clear that the growing advances in AI and Robotics, while still in early days, are increasing the rate and impact of change," Dave Gedeon, Vice President and Head of Product Development for Nasdaq's Global Indexes, said in a note.