SAN FRANCISCO: A US judge has ruled that artificial intelligence can’t get a patent for its creations, ruling that such a privilege is reserved for people.
District court judge Leonie Brinkema backed a decision by the US patent office to turn away applications made on behalf of a “creativity machine” named DABUS.
Brinkema issued a ruling on Thursday saying that “the clear answer is ‘no'” to the question of whether an AI machine qualifies as an inventor under patent law.
“As technology evolves, there may come a time when artificial intelligence reaches a level of sophistication that might satisfy accepted meanings of inventorship,”…
