Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are
revolutionizing a range of industries and enabling a variety of new
scientific discoveries. Various platforms, such as IBM Watson,
Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), to name a few, are
making AI and machine learning accessible to a much wider audience
than ever before. As with any new technology, the advent of AI is
not without its legal complications.
With the widespread adoption of AI technologies, AI-generated
inventions are becoming commonplace. The spectrum of AI-generated
inventions includes everything from use of AI as a mere tool by a
human to AI generating solutions to technical
problems and objectives defined by humans to, one
day, existence of a truly autonomous AI that generates inventions.
The rather speculative end of the spectrum with ‘full
artificial intelligence’ has drawn some criticism and
cautionary warnings in the AI community.1
