Why generative AI can make creative destruction more creative but less destructive Small Business Economics

Ribbon gives the consumer freedom to buy their new home before they’ve sold their previous home, removing enormous friction from the complicated process of moving. The company has hundreds of millions of dollars of debt capital which acts as short-term bridge financing. Ribbon is paid a service fee to manage this process by the homeseller, which is often lower than the cash discount they’d typically pay.

For example, tools like Canva and Midjourney leverage Generative AI to assist users in effortlessly creating visually appealing graphics and powerful images. At the same time, numerous regions are engaging in smart cluster development—sometimes motivated by the new generation of federal place-based challenge grants. The EDA’s fully funded and launched Build Back Better Regional Challenge (BBBRC) provides an example of how sizable place-focused challenge grants to regional stakeholder groups can accelerate the scale-up of local AI specializations. A case in point is the above-mentioned Georgia plan to channel $65 million into an ambitious push to accelerate AI-related adoption in the state’s manufacturing sectors. Such an award—dispensed through a compelling, well-run, and well-resourced funding competition—demonstrates how the federal government can effectively invest to counter AI sector geographical divergence. Despite recent increases in the federal AI R&D budget, both its top-line totals and geographic distribution need to be increased.

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In this scenario, incumbent internet companies would have to grapple with established profit centers and economic models coming under greater pressure. It is likely that agent companies would capture some of this value themselves, and select incumbents would be able to reinvent their services via APIs, plugins, partnerships, and more. Finally, generative agency may also drive a great “re-bundling” from the cloud era, in which company formation proliferated as many legacy platforms were unbundled into disparate best-of-breed tools. In the AI era, the reverse may occur, where horizontal AI agents consolidate and re-bundle services together. Under USC Frontiers of Computing, USC unites its multiple strengths in computer science and advanced computing, data analytics, imaging, telemedicine and the creative economy.

• Although AI has proven to be more accurate than humans for some well-defined tasks, humans often perform better for long-tail problems where context matters.
• The foundations of machine learning were laid more than 70 years ago, and the mathematician Alan Turing introduced his “imitation game,” the Turing Test, in 1950.
• The first was that productivity for the group with the AI assistants was on average 14 percent higher.
• In various sectors such as sales, marketing, and customer service, AI/ML models are being utilized not as replacements for human employees but as complementary tools.
• Therefore, we all need to get comfortable with the new language of Gen AI, to all appreciate how AI and automation will disrupt how we work, and to ensure we have guardrails to maximize the gains while minimizing the risks.

That is, better access for the entrepreneur to the incumbent’s data will increase her expected profit from becoming an entrepreneur, which will make her more likely to invest fixed cost F to take the chance to become a successful entrepreneur. When ML becomes more efficient, it becomes costlier for the entrepreneur to choose a safer project since the strategic effect of a more aggressive incumbent in the product market becomes stronger. The downward-sloping curve labeled SS is the SS effect, showing the benefit from succeeding with a marginally safer project in terms of per-unit profit.

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The result that entrepreneurs choose more creative (riskier) projects when ML becomes more efficient and that incumbents’ proprietary data becomes more critical depends on the assumption that entrepreneurs do not face substantial financial restrictions. If they do, then our results would be less relevant since ML will block entrepreneurship entirely if it becomes sufficiently efficient. However, the growing venture capital and angel market might relax such financial restrictions.

Secret detection at GitHub is being actively enhanced to provide increasingly actionable alerts. GitHub’s goal is to avoid bombarding developers with unclear or difficult-to-address alerts. Although still in the early stages with some capabilities, GitHub is focused on providing developers with those actionable alerts, and minimizing the confusing ones. DePriest explained that when a secret is found in the code, GitHub’s aim is to alert the developer and guide them on how to fix it.

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As companies rush to adapt and implement it, understanding the technology’s potential to deliver value to the economy and society at large will help shape critical decisions. We have used two complementary lenses to determine where generative AI, with its current capabilities, could deliver the biggest value and how big that value could be (Exhibit 1). All of us are at the beginning of a journey to understand generative AI’s power, reach, and capabilities.

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