Decisions · Policy · Germany
'AI-generated inventions': time to get the record straight?
Daria Kim (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) · 2020 · Proposal · non-binding
Can AI be an inventor?
Human inventors only
So-called AI-generated inventions still rest on human-defined instructions, so humans remain the inventors
What it says
Kim describes AI techniques as methods of computational problem solving rather than cognitive autonomy. Because neural networks and evolutionary algorithms need detailed human instructions, separating human from non-human ingenuity is artificial, and the case for non-human inventorship needs a sounder technical basis.
Pushes back on the premise behind DABUS: the human is still the inventor.
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