Investors who lived through the internet boom of the nineties and the early 2000s keep asking the same quiet question. Is artificial intelligence (AI) just another hype cycle, or is it the kind of once-in-a-generation reset that creates fortunes? The market's own behavior this year offers a clue. Software stocks have done tremendously well, especially those involved in AI. For example, Oracle (ORCL) has been known as a "legacy" company for a long time. The stock has done well in the 2010s and early in the ...