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Aug 2, 2021 2 min

The World’s First AI Inventor

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For today’s Monday Minutes, Tom discusses the world’s first ever patent issued to a machine. South Africa issued a patent to an AI inventor named Dabus. The inventor of Dabus, Steven Thaler from Imagination Engines filed the patent originally in the US and the UK, before being rejected. In the US, the patent requires the inventor be an actual person, but said that the patent Thaler filed fits all of the other requirements. The UK IPO said the same, with the only issue being in the inventorship. Listen to the episode to hear Tom delve further into the topic.

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