Artificial Intelligence: Can A Machine Be An Inventor?

Computers, and the functionality they provide, permeate every part of modern life. Computers are on your desktop, computers are in your car and there's a chance you're reading this article on a device that's talking to the watch on your wrist, the router in the other room and a variety of other smart devices in the building.

Computers and computing power are also part of the process of generating inventions and, for example, enable huge volumes of data to be analysed and processed at the press of a button. The increasing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques also enables relationships within such data to be determined that would be beyond the abilities of a person or team analysing the data in more traditional ways to uncover.