Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks are some of the hottest names on Wall Street. But did you know that many of these stocks also boast significant share buyback programs? Today, let's examine three such stocks: Meta Platforms ( META 0.40%), Microsoft ( MSFT -0.78%), and Nvidia ( NVDA -1.59%).

We asked a range of experts to predict whether, in five years, AI will have lived up to the current hype. Be warned: They don’t all agree.

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