AI are (going to be) people too

BY KIM BELLARD My heart says I should write about Uvalde, but my head says, not yet; there are others more able to do that.  I’ll reserve my sorrow, my outrage, and any hopes I still have for the next election cycle.   Instead, I’m turning to a topic that has long fascinated me: when and how are we going to recognize when artificial intelligence (AI) becomes, if not human, then a “person”?  Maybe even a doctor. What prompted me to revisit this question was an article in Nature by Alexandra George and Toby Walsh:Artificial intelligence is breaking patent law.  Their main point is that patent law requires the inventor to be “human,” and that concept is quickly become outdated.    It turns out that there is a test case about this issue which has been winding its way through the patent and judicial systems around the world.  In 2018, Stephen Thaler, PhD, CEO of Imagination Engines, started trying to patent some inventions “invented” by an AI system called DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience).  His legal team submitted patent applications in multiple countries. It has not gone well.  The article notes: “Patent registration offices have so far rejected the applications in the United Kingdom, United States, Europe (in both the European Patent Office and Germany), South Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia…But at this point, the tide of judicial opinion is running almost entirely again...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Artificial intelligence Kim Bellard Patent Uvalde Source Type: blogs