Do robots dream of patenting their ideas?

The robots are composing music all the time.

Musicians (humans) practice daily with

packages that not only accompany you and improvise you a nickel-plated piano solo, but also allow themselves the bravado of giving you a choice between the style of Bill Evans or that of McCoy Tyner.

It's not that they copy a McCoy solo, it's that they are inspired by his general principles to create an original and unrepeatable product.

But has anyone seen a robot queuing at the SGAE (General Society of Authors and Publishers) to register their music?

No. Robots lose money every day by not registering their intellectual property.

They must be dumber than the customer of an electric company.

There are also robot novelists, like IBM's Brutus system.

He wrote well in various narrative styles, and his results were so convincing that he did well in a contest with human opponents.

But now let's suppose that I use Brutus to write a novel and register it in my name at the SGAE.

Wouldn't Brutus have the right to sue me for stealing his intellectual property?

In fact, what does the word intellectual mean when applied to an artificial intelligence?

Think that behind Brutus there is a lot of scientific talent, strenuous work and genuinely human creativity.

The machine may not be able to sue me, but the scientists and engineers who conceived it will surely have something to say.

In the field of the arts this still sounds very extravagant, but there are other areas where it is no longer.

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Just two years ago, artificial intelligence identified halicin, a novel and powerful antibiotic, among a library of 100 million molecules, an unattainable milestone for a human pharmacologist.

Considering that bacteria resistant to conventional antibiotics will soon kill 10 million people a year worldwide, halicin is one of the most valuable drugs discovered in recent decades.

But who has discovered it?

The laboratory that will commercialize it?

The inventors of

?

Or the machine itself?

The name halicin, by the way, comes from HAL, the psychotic computer from

, which in turn comes from subtracting an alphabetical position from the acronym IBM.

when the

inherit the planet, they will surely remember these founding myths.

I wonder with which company they will contract the electrical energy.

Even with the dawn of a new era, artificial intelligence is already being used to develop vaccines, discover new materials, design ships, and send ships into space.

The robot discoveries, which can only grow in the coming years, are going to confront patent offices with an uproar not seen since the filing of red stained glass dye.

More than 100 countries have already received patent applications that include a piece of

among the inventors.

Consultations to lawyers specializing in intellectual property are multiplying.

And if companies can't patent AI inventions, the industry will stagnate.

This is only solved by a registrar robot.

Let them invent it.

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