Intellectual Property (IP) refers to exclusive rights associated
to creations of the mind. These rights allow creators, or owners,
of patents, trademarks or copyrighted works to benefit from their
own work or investment in a creation. But what if these inventions
are the products of an artificial intelligence, not a human
mind?
We have passed the era of intelligence being only a feature of
mankind. In 2016, a short novel written by a Japanese computer
program, reached the second round of a national literary prize.
Last year, Google started to fund an artificial intelligence
program that will write local news articles. A month ago, a work of
art created by an algorithm sold for $432.500. These developments
bring to mind the following question: Should intellectual property
rights be given to artificial intelligence? This question does not
yet have a clear answer, but in this article we will examine two
different approaches to the subject.
