There have been a couple of developments in the last day or two regarding what is and isn’t permissible with AI. The first comes courtesy of the U.K.’s Supreme Court, and it’s a bitter blow to those who want to use AI to invent things.
There’s an outfit called the Artificial Inventor Project that’s been trying—through a series of test cases—to get countries to recognize that AI-derived inventions can be patented. The cases hinge on inventions made by an AI called DABUS (“Device for Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience”) that was created by Missouri-based inventor Stephen Thaler. Specifically, Thaler claims DABUS has come up with a novel kind of food container that increases rather than stifles heat transfer, and a new kind of “neural flame” light source for a flashing beacon, all by itself.
