In 2018 and 2019, Dr. Stephen Thaler filed a patent application naming Device for Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience, known as “DABUS,” as the inventor of the resulting.
Patent offices and courts around the world have recently been grappling with the question of whether an AI system can be the inventor of a patent. This has been prompted by Dr. Stephen.
Alistair Maughan, Anna Yuan, and Georgia Wright authored an article for The Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law discussing South Africa and Australia not following