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The Korean Intellectual Property Office has invalidated an application for a patent that was claimed to have been invented by artificial intelligence AI.
It is the judgment that artificial intelligence cannot be an inventor, and the related discussion is likely to heat up in the future.
Reporter Jo Yoon-ha on the sidewalk.
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subway station was empty, and Times Square was in ruins.
It's an 18-page cartoon titled 'It's the dawn', and it was not a human, but an artificial intelligence 'Mid Journey' that made this cartoon.
Last month, the U.S. Copyright Office granted copyright to authors for the first time in a way that inputting characters into an AI program creates an image.
This work, where people gather and look at the moon, is also a painting created by artificial intelligence.
While receiving the grand prize at an art contest in Colorado, USA, there was a debate about "It's cheating" and "No, there's no problem."
As artificial intelligence develops and expands, the controversy over who and how to recognize copyrights or patents for creations is also growing.
The Korean Intellectual Property Office made the first judgment that "Artificial intelligence cannot be an inventor".
The US artificial intelligence developer has invalidated a patent application filed by an artificial intelligence called 'Dabus' that he made, claiming that he invented food containers and lamps.
The current patent law is a 'natural person'
Major countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom also recognize inventors only as natural persons.
[Seong-Hyun Kim/Patent Attorney: I
think the next response would be to make the case of artificial intelligence invented as a separate clause and make a separate regulation through social consensus including the scientific and technological community.]
“There may come a time when we have to admit it,” he said.
(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, video editing: Choi Eun-jin)