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Re:Google tries to patent ANS, which they did not invent by droidist2 on Saturday August 05, 2017 @08:03PM (#14938794)
Google is doing a lot of this stuff, filing patents on machine learning techniques from decades ago and loads of other things, and often getting the patents granted. It's pretty infuriating.
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Re:Google tries to patent ANS, which they did not invent by mcappleton on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:54AM (#14939966)
A lot of it is probably defensive. If they don't Microsoft will and they'll just have to pay Microsoft. It's not their fault. It's the patent systems fault. I don't think you should be able to patent an algorithm, but that's just me
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