Mark Cuban: "Be the Trillionaire in the Basement" On the a16z podcast, Cuban says big companies are struggling with AI until their bosses understand how it works. This leaves an opening: "There is no better time to be an entrepreneur than now. " He thinks that artificial intelligence still needs a person to guide it: "Artificial intelligence is not smart. It may be book smart, but it's not street smart. This is not a smart entrepreneur. His demonstration to the head of a consumer food company: Take their number one product, a cookie, and ask ChatGPT to create a competitor. "And within about three minutes he was like, 'Oh, haha.' '".