Artificial intelligence and inventorship: an Australian perspective
Nick Li, Tzeyi Koay · Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice · 2020
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years has been described by the World Economic Forum as the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’.1 Sophisticated machine learning has already transformed the fields of literature, food, art, medicine, music and even law.2 Some have gone so far as to suggest that AI will ultimately be responsible for, or at least contribute to, the vast majority of future inventions.3 However, the dawn of AI is not without complications. According to Alan Turing's Polite Convention: if a machine acts as intelligently as a human being, then it is as intelligent as a human being.4 Indeed, AI is acting so intelligently that it is capable of generating new material without human input, and this has created concern around whether the existing legal framework is adequate to cater for this new development. In the context of copyright, there have been calls for...