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Re:US patent office rules that artificial intelligence canno... by simion314 on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:42PM (#23045183)
>AIs invent things now

Do you mean AI find things? Current AIs are just a complex algorithm for searching or approximating stuff. You might argue that some algorithms "learn" but that is just an algorithm that is adjusting some weights based on some algorithm someone created. AI is a tool, tools don't invent things. Maybe future AI like the ones in SciFi could invent things but for now we don't know that is even possible.

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Re:US patent office rules that artificial intelligence canno... by JadeNB on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:44PM (#23045208)
This seems to rely on a fine parsing of 'invent', which is probably as fruitless as the fine parsing of whether AI 'thinks'.
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Re:US patent office rules that artificial intelligence canno... by simion314 on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:50PM (#23045261)
Invent implies some creativity, an algorithm that follows exact steps to find what was asked has no creativity.
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