Comment "veracity", really? (Score 1) 69
I think that might have been a speech to text error.
Perhaps 'ferocity' is what was said.
Submission + - Man Sues Patent Office For Deciding An AI Can't Invent Things (vice.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A computer scientist who created an artificial intelligence system capable of generating original inventions is suing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) over its decision earlier this year to reject two patent applications which list the algorithmic system, known as DABUS, as the inventor. The lawsuit is the latest step in an effort by Stephen Thaler and an international group of lawyers and academics to win inventorship rights for non-human AI systems, a prospect that raises fundamental questions about what it means to be creative and also carries potentially paradigm-shifting implications for certain industries.
In July 2019, Thaler filed two patent applications in the U.S. —one for an adjustable food container, the other for an emergency beacon—and listed the inventor as DABUS. He describes DABUS as a “creativity engine” composed of neural networks trained on a broad swath of data, and not designed to solve any particular problem. The USPTO rejected the applications, citing court decisions ruling that corporations, as opposed to individuals within corporations, cannot be legal inventors, and asserting that “conception—the touchstone of inventorship—must be performed by a natural person.” British, German, and European Union patent regulators have also rejected Thaler’s applications, decisions he has appealed. Petitions for DABUS-invented patents are still pending in China, Japan, India, and several other countries.
In his suit, filed August 6 in the Eastern District of Virginia’s federal court, Thaler argues (PDF) that the USPTO should instead adopt the principle laid out in a 1943 report from the National Patent Planning Commission, which helped reform the country’s patent system into its modern form. The commission wrote, “patentability shall be determined objectively by the nature of the contribution to the advancement of the art, and not subjectively by the nature of the process by which the invention may have been accomplished.” [...] “What we want is to have innovation. AI has been used to help generate innovation for decades and AI is getting better and better at doing these things, and people aren’t.” Ryan Abbott, a professor at the University of Surrey School of Law, who is representing Thaler in the suit, told Motherboard. “The law is not clear on whether you can have a patent if the AI does that sort of work, but if you can’t protect inventions coming out of AI, you’re going to under-produce them."
In July 2019, Thaler filed two patent applications in the U.S. —one for an adjustable food container, the other for an emergency beacon—and listed the inventor as DABUS. He describes DABUS as a “creativity engine” composed of neural networks trained on a broad swath of data, and not designed to solve any particular problem. The USPTO rejected the applications, citing court decisions ruling that corporations, as opposed to individuals within corporations, cannot be legal inventors, and asserting that “conception—the touchstone of inventorship—must be performed by a natural person.” British, German, and European Union patent regulators have also rejected Thaler’s applications, decisions he has appealed. Petitions for DABUS-invented patents are still pending in China, Japan, India, and several other countries.
In his suit, filed August 6 in the Eastern District of Virginia’s federal court, Thaler argues (PDF) that the USPTO should instead adopt the principle laid out in a 1943 report from the National Patent Planning Commission, which helped reform the country’s patent system into its modern form. The commission wrote, “patentability shall be determined objectively by the nature of the contribution to the advancement of the art, and not subjectively by the nature of the process by which the invention may have been accomplished.” [...] “What we want is to have innovation. AI has been used to help generate innovation for decades and AI is getting better and better at doing these things, and people aren’t.” Ryan Abbott, a professor at the University of Surrey School of Law, who is representing Thaler in the suit, told Motherboard. “The law is not clear on whether you can have a patent if the AI does that sort of work, but if you can’t protect inventions coming out of AI, you’re going to under-produce them."
Comment Re:Dumb grammer (Score 1) 55
LOL Thanks for the chuckle. I hadn't noticed that bit.
Speaking of language use, are you continually bombarded with ads for Grammarly?
How come no-one seems to be pointing out the potential dangers of Grammarly?
And it's not even effective - they were advertising on a real English grammar web site
until one of their bods gave it a try - and found that it failed miserably at a few common
grammatical mistakes. I read that they suspended G's ads for that site.
It seems that it is as they say: If you're not paying for it, you're the product.
I read that some of Grammarly's data leaked out, and it seemed to be the whole
history of their interaction.
Submission + - Israeli phone hacking company sued to stop sales to Hong Kong (technologyreview.com)
An anonymous reader writes: MIT Technology Review reports that human rights advocates filed a new court petition against the Israeli phone hacking company Cellebrite, urging Israel’s Ministry of Defense to halt the firm’s exports to Hong Kong where security forces have been using the technology in crackdowns against dissidents as China takes greater control of Hong Kong.
“The system of regulation is not working,” says says Eitay Mack, the human rights lawyer who filed the petition in the district court in Tel Aviv. He argues that the dramatic changes in Hong Kong now requires the Ministry of Defense to regulate Cellebrite and stop all sales there. "I hope Cellebrite will have a rebellion inside the company. The workers inside the company didn't join to help the Chinese dictatorship."
“The system of regulation is not working,” says says Eitay Mack, the human rights lawyer who filed the petition in the district court in Tel Aviv. He argues that the dramatic changes in Hong Kong now requires the Ministry of Defense to regulate Cellebrite and stop all sales there. "I hope Cellebrite will have a rebellion inside the company. The workers inside the company didn't join to help the Chinese dictatorship."
Submission + - Texas A&M professor accused of secretly collaborating with China amid NASA w (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A Texas A&M professor was charged with conspiracy, making false statements and wire fraud on allegations that he was secretly collaborating with the Chinese government while conducting research for NASA, the Department of Justice said Monday.
Zhengdong Cheng, 53, an engineering professor and a NASA researcher, obscured his affiliations and collaboration with a Chinese university and at least one Chinese-owned company, according to a criminal complaint.
Cheng’s arrest comes almost two months after the DOJ announced the indictment of a Harvard professor, Charles Lieber, who allegedly made false statements to federal authorities regarding work at a university in China.
Zhengdong Cheng, 53, an engineering professor and a NASA researcher, obscured his affiliations and collaboration with a Chinese university and at least one Chinese-owned company, according to a criminal complaint.
Cheng’s arrest comes almost two months after the DOJ announced the indictment of a Harvard professor, Charles Lieber, who allegedly made false statements to federal authorities regarding work at a university in China.
Submission + - Tesla, Intel, Ford and others waging a new war against Qualcomm over its patents (bbc.co.uk)
concertina226 writes: A group of carmakers and tech firms is urging US regulators to take further action against chipmaker Qualcomm over its sales practices.
Tesla, Ford, Honda, Daimler, Intel and MediaTek have asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to fight a recent court ruling in favour of Qualcomm.
Qualcomm has a practice of requiring customers to sign patent licence agreements before selling them chips.
Prof Mark Lemley of Stamford Law School thinks that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has misunderstood "the definition of antitrust law" in reversing the judgement against Qualcomm.
"It says for instance that it can ignore most of the district court findings because those findings show harm to downstream customers, and anti-trust law only concerns competitors," he explained.
"That's exactly backwards — for decades antitrust law has said we're not out to protect competitors, we're out to protect the competitive process and protect consumers."
Tesla, Ford, Honda, Daimler, Intel and MediaTek have asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to fight a recent court ruling in favour of Qualcomm.
Qualcomm has a practice of requiring customers to sign patent licence agreements before selling them chips.
Prof Mark Lemley of Stamford Law School thinks that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has misunderstood "the definition of antitrust law" in reversing the judgement against Qualcomm.
"It says for instance that it can ignore most of the district court findings because those findings show harm to downstream customers, and anti-trust law only concerns competitors," he explained.
"That's exactly backwards — for decades antitrust law has said we're not out to protect competitors, we're out to protect the competitive process and protect consumers."
Journal Journal: Whatever happened to kystnkkbrr's Journal Entries?
Where's Koualla?
What about tesseractic's postings?
How long will this complaint stay visible?
Do only American citizens have a right to free speech?
In case you didn't know, under Australian law as I
understand it, copyright exists without submission to any
government body, and as your website has proclaimed
for years: "Comments [are] owned by the poster."
Furthermore, destruction of a copyrighted work is illegal.
Comment Re:noob question (Score 1) 101
You're no newbie, your 6-digit UID is a giveaway.
I used to have a 7-digit palindromic UID, but the whole account got censored out of existence, and not for any abuse of the account, either.
This is physics, and chemistry is just applied physics. If this guy is correct (and there are doubts about that) the engine that might come out of it should be able to model such a system, given enough computing grunt.
About a decade ago I met a former PhD student (don't know whether he completed) who had some experience with software simulation of neurotransmitter action. His experience was very negative, and he left the lab. His advice was to use 'real' chemicals, even in tiny amounts. I guess he meant maybe a lab-on-a-chip.
Comment Re:I'm going to need (Score 1) 101
I've fired up Blender on my Raspberry Pi 4modB and I think I'll have to upgrade to 8GB.
Comment Re:Two Slit Experiment (Score 1) 101
That was my first thought when I read that it's all classical physics - can he reproduce the double slit experiment under his system. I've seen no discussion of it, but I haven't looked at the multiple videos that go back a couple of years.
I recently read about Stephen Wolfram's physics project and the recent reproduction of some good-looking results for their system. It almost falls out of Jonathan Gorard's system.
Let me see if I can find a link... here it is:
Submission + - Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing.
leathered writes: Blockchain technology has been hyped ever since the creation of Bitcoin in 2008, and despite some evangelists claiming that it can solve a multitude of the world's problems, adoption outside of cryptocurrencies has been almost non-existent. The Correspondent explores the reasons for the non-adoption of Blockchain.
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"Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government in fact, what won’t it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of knowledge and understanding. The blockchain is a solution in search of a problem."
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"Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government in fact, what won’t it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of knowledge and understanding. The blockchain is a solution in search of a problem."
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