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Most patent offices around the world require an inventor to be a “natural person.” But should that standard change as machine learning improves and AIs become capable of creating new inventions?

We can probably agree on some of the most important inventions ever: electricity, telephone, the steam engine, penicillin. And we can probably also agree that one new invention pretty much trumps ...

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What are the arguments against allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to patent inventions? Following initial surveys of the issue, in our last piece we examined the arguments in favor of machine ...