ARTificial Intelligence - How IP Law Handles Machine Creations

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Presented at A New HOPE 2022 by

Ed Ryan

The development of sophisticated machine learning models in recent years has been pushing into realms of human creativity, and that has implications for patent and copyright law. Can a machine be an "inventor?" Does the machine's output qualify for copyright protection? The development of the DALL-E and DALL-E 2 systems directly call the very concept of "creativity" into question, while the former is being actively litigated in courts around the world.