The creative spark is one of humanity’s defining features. But increasingly powerful artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing innovation and automation together to create new tools for invention. Eureka moments tend to come from the rare convergence of ideas from diverse fields, says Julian Nolan,…
Over the past few years, and after decades as little more than a mathematical curiosity, useful industrial applications of AI have become commonplace. AI is now recognised as one of the primary drivers of computing development. In 2018, Canadians Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey…
Our previous blog posts, Artificial Intelligence as the Inventor of Life Sciences Patents? and Update on Artificial Intelligence: Court Rules that AI Cannot Qualify As “Inventor,” discuss recent inventorship issues surrounding AI and its implications for life sciences innovations. Continuing our series, we now look at…
It was the veritable search for a needle in a haystack. With drug-resistant bacteria on the rise, researchers at MIT were sifting through a database of more than 100 million molecules to identify a few that might have antibacterial properties. Fortunately, the…
NFTs have been called everything from fads to outright scams, but early adopters see a future for them as uniquely useful tools for business, health and the arts that goes beyond mere digital collecting. The non-fungible token (NFT) craze, just over a…
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have been around since 2014, but only more recently gained popularity in the fields of digital and digitally held assets. Despite the almost decade-long history of this technological development, many individuals still wonder what actually is a Non-Fungible Token?…
Creativity Machine’s artwork is titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” Its developer Steven Thaler tried to copyright the artwork on behalf of the algorithm he dubbed as ‘Creativity Machine’, reports The Verge. Now, a three-person board at the US Copyright Office has…
This consultation is seeking evidence and views on: the extent to which patents and copyright should protect inventions and creative works made by AI measures to make it easier to use copyright protected material in AI development, supporting innovation and research Artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformative…
Artificial intelligence is the capability of a machine or software to imitate intelligent human behavior. It is expected to grow and improve in the near future, which means it could soon be a contender for human content writers. Some argue that AIs…
Stephen Thaler and Ryan Abbott plan to bring a light beacon, a beverage container, and a machine called Dabus into court, along with a simple question: Does an inventor need to be human? Depending on how they respond, a panel of judges…
