Artificial Intelligence eliminates barriers to entry

The Google Brain project is working on an Artificial Intelligence that is capable of creating Artificial Intelligence. They are not the only ones, OpenAI, MIT or Berkeley are also exploring in that direction. The thought that this line of work of Google takes to me is that the Artificial Intelligence will transform massively the barriers to entry of multiple markets. It is something that has already happened to the Internet, and what many could not adapt at the time.

Artificial Intelligence will transform massively the barriers to entry of multiple markets

Joshua Browder, 18, an Englishman, Stanford student, shortly after his driver’s license, received more than 30 traffic tickets for parking his motorcycle. He considered the fines to be unfair and began to appeal them. He thought he could help other people with improper fines and created DoNotPay.co.uk, where he has a robot that communicates with the user via chat and makes the claim for the fine. 4 months after opening the website, he had successfully claimed 30,000 fines amounting to 2 million pounds. He is currently evolving his chatbot with the aim of “replacing 25,000 exploitative lawyers”. Joshua is not a lawyer, he is not a law student, and his chatbot is a very basic case compared to the state of the art of Artificial Intelligence.

A barrier to entry common in all markets is the know how. With cases like DoNotPay.co.uk, everything points to that barrier to entry is going to be transformed into having access to — or being able to develop — the Artificial Intelligence that has the know how.

Nobody escapes that it is a very disruptive movement, that positions to all who is investing in that Artificial Intelligence capable of creating Artificial Intelligence, in potential competitors in all the markets. Anyone should worry about what Artificial Intelligence is capable of doing in his market.

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