{"id":12238,"date":"2023-09-04T07:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T07:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/startups\/the-inventor-behind-a-rush-of-ai-copyright-suits-is-trying-to-show-his-bot-is-sentient\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T07:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T07:26:02","slug":"the-inventor-behind-a-rush-of-ai-copyright-suits-is-trying-to-show-his-bot-is-sentient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/?p=12238","title":{"rendered":"The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Abbott\u2019s contention is that machine inventions should be protected to incentivize people to use AI for social good. It shouldn\u2019t matter, he says, whether a drug company asked a group of scientists or a group of supercomputers to formulate a vaccine for a new pathogen: The result should still be patentable, because society needs people to use AI to create beneficial inventions. Old patent law, he says, is ill-equipped to deal with changing definitions of intelligence. \u201cIn the US, inventors are defined as individuals, and we argued there was no reason that was restricted to a natural person,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">What applies to patents should also apply to copyright, he says. If, for example, an AI is asked to write \u201cthe best pop song in history,\u201d and does so, it would have created an extremely valuable piece of intellectual property. \u201cIs that an activity that we ought to incentivize through the copyright system?\u201d Abbott says. \u201cIf the view is that the system exists so that the public gets more works, then the answer is clearly yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In short, Abbott says, copyright and patent regimes should exist to encourage creation, not limit it. Rather than searching for a vague legal line in the sand where an AI-human collaboration becomes protectable, we should sweep away the line entirely. Intellectual property rights should be granted regardless of how a thing was made, including in the absence of a human inventor or author.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Through the Artificial Inventor Project, Abbott represents Thaler directly in some jurisdictions and manages litigation in others, all pro bono. However, the two men diverge on the true importance of their work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Abbott says the coverage of the cases\u2014influenced by the district court\u2019s vagueness\u2014has been quite confused, with a misguided focus on DABUS\u2019s autonomy. He emphasizes that he is not arguing that an AI should own a copyright, 3D printers\u2014or scientists employed by a multinational, for that matter\u2014create things, but don&#8217;t own them. He sees no legal difference between Thaler\u2019s machine and someone asking Midjourney to \u201cmake me a picture of a squirrel on a bicycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThe autonomous statement was that the machine was executing the traditional elements of authorship, not that it crawled out of a primordial ooze, plugged itself in, paid a ton of utility bills and dropped out of college to do art,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd that is the case with any number of commonly used generative AI systems now: The machine is autonomously automating the traditional elements of authorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Thaler directly contradicts Abbott here. He says that DABUS is not taking any human input; it\u2019s totally autonomous. \u201cSo I probably disagree with Abbott a little bit about bringing in all these AI tools, you know, text to image and so forth, where you\u2019ve got a human being that is dictating and is hands on with the tool,\u201d he says. \u201cMy stuff just sits and contemplates and contemplates and comes up with new revelations that can be, you know, along any sensory channel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">DABUS has been around a lot longer than the lawsuits. Thaler describes it as an evolving system \u201cat least 30 years in the making.\u201d He has, he says over email, \u201ccreated the most capable AI paradigm in the world, and through its sentience it is driven to invent and create.\u201d Throughout our conversation, he seems exasperated that journalists have tended to focus on the legal aspects of his cases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-inventor-behind-a-rush-of-ai-copyright-suits-is-trying-to-show-his-bot-is-sentient\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbott\u2019s contention is that machine inventions should be protected to incentivize people to use AI for social good. It shouldn\u2019t matter, he says, whether a drug company asked a group of scientists or a group of supercomputers to formulate a vaccine for a new pathogen: The result should still be patentable, because society needs people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-startups"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient | Brandiary<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Abbott\u2019s contention is that machine inventions should be protected to incentivize people to use AI for social good. 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