Artificial intelligence can help us figure things out, but experts are divided over whether it can do so on its own.
Should Artificial Intelligence Be Considered an "Inventor!"?
A federal court recently ruled that an AI cannot be named as an inventor on a U.S. patent. The judge upheld a ruling that the machine does not qualify as an inventor because it is not a person. But the case also plays into the murky question of whether computers can be creative.
“Artificial intelligence can certainly be considered an inventor in some cases,” Mike Miller, general manager of Amazon Web Services AI devices, told Lifewire in an email interview. “AI devices and machine learning can create 3D models from sketches, automatically correct images or colorize black-and-white photos, generate structural designs for products, and more.”
The recent lawsuit proves that AI may not get all the credit for what it can do. Computer scientist Stephen Thaler built an AI “creativity engine” called DABUS, which stands for Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience.
