Artificial Intelligence Can Invent But Not Patent-For Now

• 作者: Erika K.Carlson
• 来源期刊: 工程（英文）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（11）
• 所属期刊栏目: News & Highlights
• 页码范围: 1212-1213
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

As artificial intelligence(AI)becomes increasingly powerful and prevalent,some engineers have begun using machine learning and Al systems in the process of invention,employing them to help design more efficient electronics,materials with improved charac-teristics,or even to come up with original ideas for products[1-3].But this use of AI poses a thorny legal question that is currently playing out:How should the concept of intellectual property-designed to encourage innovation and protect the rights of human inventors-apply to ideas created by AI?Agencies such as the United Nations'World Intellectual Property Organization are now grappling with this issue[4].