{"id":1748,"date":"2017-02-28T17:04:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T22:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2017-02-28T17:04:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T22:04:11","slug":"artificial-intelligence-and-the-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2017\/02\/28\/artificial-intelligence-and-the-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence and the Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/287693\">https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/287693<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I found this article fascinating because <span class=\"il\">artificial<\/span> <span class=\"il\">intelligence<\/span> has always been associated with large, expensive super computers and Fortune 500 companies. IBM&#8217;s Watson comes to mind, or learning networks we vaguely know exist at Google, Microsoft, and Adobe that replace human programmers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But <span class=\"il\">artificial<\/span> <span class=\"il\">intelligence<\/span>, just like other innovations, have gotten cheaper and more widely available. That means the entrepreneur is affected. It&#8217;s become almost a cliche to say <span class=\"il\">artificial<\/span> <span class=\"il\">intelligence<\/span> is a double-edged sword, and that metaphor is accurate here.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Increasingly available <span class=\"il\">artificial<\/span> <span class=\"il\">intelligence<\/span> means that entrepreneurs can incorporate the technology into their business with ease, denying large institutional commercial enterprises an advantage they have long held due to economies of scale.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It also means that an entrepreneur&#8217;s work can be rendered obsolete.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I believe one thing is certain &#8211; entrepreneurs cannot ignore <span class=\"il\">artificial<\/span> <span class=\"il\">intelligence<\/span> as being something that affects only large enterprises any longer.\u00a0 Entrepreneurship does not exist in a vacuum.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/287693 I found this article fascinating because artificial intelligence has always been associated with large, expensive super computers and Fortune 500 companies. IBM&#8217;s Watson comes to mind, or learning networks we vaguely know exist at Google, Microsoft, and Adobe that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2017\/02\/28\/artificial-intelligence-and-the-entrepreneur\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}