Michael Burry attends "The Big Short" New York screening Ziegfeld Theater on Nov. 23, 2015 in New York City.

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Michael Burry of "Big Short" fame is warning that the stock market's fixation on artificial intelligence is beginning to resemble the final stages of the dot-com bubble.

"Absolutely non-stop AI. Nobody is talking about anything else all day," Burry wrote Friday in a Substack post after listening to financial television and radio coverage during a long drive.

The investor, best known for predicting the U.S. housing crash, said stocks are no longer reacting meaningfully to economic data such as jobs reports or consumer sentiment in a logical way. The S&P 500 rose to a fresh record high Friday as traders focused on a slightly better-than-expected April's jobs report rather than a record low reading in consumer sentiment.

"Stocks are not up or down because of jobs or consumer sentiment," Burry wrote. "They are going straight up because they have been going straight up.…