Can AI be an inventor? Not yet.

The question is becoming more and more relevant as I have also recently blogged here about it: Chinese court rules AI-written article is protected by copyright

"Last August, the UK and European patent offices received two applications for warning light and a food container on behalf of Stephen Thaler, who is CEO of a company called Imagination Engines.

Instead of listing human authors, however, the patents listed the inventor as Dabus AI, an AI system ... But both patent offices recently rejected the applications because the “inventor” was not a human. "

Can AI be an inventor? Not yet. (MIT Technology Review. The Algorithm Artificial intelligence, demystified 1/12/2020)