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EU Patent Office Rejects Two Patent Applications in Which an AI Was Designated As the Inventor
Mike Masnick, writing for TechDirt: We’ve written a bunch about why AI generated artwork should not (and need not) have any copyright at all. The law says that copyright only applies to human creators. But what about patents? There has been a big debate about this in the patent space over the last year, mainly lead by AI developers who want…
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Teach Inventing To Kids?
dryriver writes: Everybody seems to think these days that kids desperately need to learn how to code when they turn six years old. But this ignores a glaring fact — the biggest shortage in the future labor market is not people who can code competently in Python, Java or C++, it is people who can actually discover or invent completely new…
Defense Innovation Board Unveils AI Ethics Principles For the Pentagon
The Defense Innovation Board, a panel of 16 prominent technologists advising the Pentagon, today voted to approve AI ethics principles for the Department of Defense. From a news article: The report includes 12 recommendations for how the U.S. military can apply ethics in the future for both combat and non-combat AI systems. The principles are broken into five main principles: responsible,…
Nokia’s Collapse Turned a Sleepy Town in Finland Into an Internet Wonderland
An anonymous reader shares a report: In the early days of the mobile phone, Nokia was everywhere — ubiquitous, inescapable, supreme. It created the best-selling 1100, with a keypad like droplets of water; the gray-blue 3310; even the cutting-edge 8810, with a slip-sliding protective cover that felt like the future. Today, the firm is doing just fine, though its primary money-makers…
Robot War Breaks Out As Roomba Maker Sues Upstart SharkNinja
Roomba robotic vacuum maker IRobot Corp. is suing rival SharkNinja for copying a device of theirs and selling it at “half the price.” “Shark is not even shy about being a copycat,” iRobot said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Boston, “claiming that the Shark IQ Robot offers the same iRobot technology at ‘half the price of iRobot…
2019’s ‘Ig Nobel’ Prizes Honor Strange, Unusual, and Hilarious Research
CNN reports: Pizza might protect against cancer, why wombats poop in cubes and a diaper changing machine that can be used on human babies — these are just some of the research and inventions awarded at this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes, a spoof of the actual Nobel Prize awards. The Ig Nobels are “intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative…
Four surprising technological innovations that came out of the Apollo moon landings
NASA’s Apollo programme was one of the most challenging technological achievements in the 20th century. Beyond the space race and exploration, it contributed to several inventions and innovations that are still having an impact on our lives. But at the same time, there are several myths regarding what technologies actually came out of it. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-technological-apollo-moon.html…