Re:EPO and UKIPO Refuse AI-Invented Patent Applications
by ben_w on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:22AM
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Headline(t=0): “AI $name beats humans at $task! The singularity is upon us!”
Headline(t=a): “AI $name isn’t real AI, because it’s just a $latest_buzzword.”
Headline(t=b): “AI doesn’t exist and never will. Humans are the best!”
Headline(t=c): “AI $name beats humans at $task! The singularity is upon us!”
I don’t deny there are plenty of buzzwords around — nor do I deny that AI/ML is glorified statistics with hopeful startups who don’t realise that outsourcing the training to Mechanical Turk won’t provide enough training data — but there are a lot of things that were introduced as AI and which have proven useful, including many things that are now regarded as the better and simpler alternatives to AI/ML.
Headline(t=a): “AI $name isn’t real AI, because it’s just a $latest_buzzword.”
Headline(t=b): “AI doesn’t exist and never will. Humans are the best!”
Headline(t=c): “AI $name beats humans at $task! The singularity is upon us!”
I don’t deny there are plenty of buzzwords around — nor do I deny that AI/ML is glorified statistics with hopeful startups who don’t realise that outsourcing the training to Mechanical Turk won’t provide enough training data — but there are a lot of things that were introduced as AI and which have proven useful, including many things that are now regarded as the better and simpler alternatives to AI/ML.