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Wonders of the world, says Tim Schweisfurth, Associate Professor and René Chester Goduscheit, Professor.
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The European Patent Office recently turned down
an application for a patent that described a food container. This was
not because the invention was not novel or useful, but because it was
created by artificial intelligence (AI). By law, inventors need to be
actual people. This isn’t the first invention by AI – machines have
produced innovations ranging from scientific papers and books to new materials and music.
That said, being creative is clearly one of the most remarkable human traits. Without it, there would be no poetry, no internet and no space travel. But could AI ever match or even surpass us? Let’s have a look at the research.
From a theoretical perspective, creativity and innovation is a process of search and combination. We start from one piece of knowledge and connect it with another piece of knowledge into something that is new and useful. In principle, this is also something that can be done by machines – in fact, they excel at storing, processing and making connections within data...
In addition, our analysis is based on the fact that machines mostly innovate on narrow datasets. AI could become much more creative if it could combine big, rich and otherwise disconnected data.
Also, machines may get better at creativity when they get better at the kind of broad intelligence humans possess – something we call “general intelligence”. And this might not be too far in the future – some experts assess that there is a 50% chance that machines reach human-level intelligence within the next 50 years.
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Source: The National Interest Online
