Re:Can Machine Learning Fix a Broken Patent System?
by joe_the_user on Friday December 27, 2013 @05:46PM
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Can I say just "no"?
As the article notes, no player today an incentive to make patent filings actually useful, especially in software. Patently are generally framed in intentionally over-broad terms with the particular advances buried behind the general idea and offering the least clues possible for those actually aiming to use the information for anything - what else would you expect from a document intended to keep people from using an invention without your permission.
Can we turn a stream of intentionally useless information into something positive? Maybe a super computer genius could? No, a super computer genius would be able to first produce useful stuff from nothing, be already at human+ level before it could pull the "garbage in, diamonds out" trick.
As the article notes, no player today an incentive to make patent filings actually useful, especially in software. Patently are generally framed in intentionally over-broad terms with the particular advances buried behind the general idea and offering the least clues possible for those actually aiming to use the information for anything - what else would you expect from a document intended to keep people from using an invention without your permission.
Can we turn a stream of intentionally useless information into something positive? Maybe a super computer genius could? No, a super computer genius would be able to first produce useful stuff from nothing, be already at human+ level before it could pull the "garbage in, diamonds out" trick.