Okay, Google®: Can AI Be Granted Inventorship to a Patent?

By Ankit Aggarwal Google® CEO Sundar Pichai demonstrated the capabilities of Google Assistant onstage at Google I/O 2018.[1] Triggered by a voice command, the Google Assistant software seamlessly and successfully communicated with a hair salon employee, via a phone call that the software initiated, to book the appointment. Pichai explained that Google Assistant actually “understand[s] the nuances of conversation” by combining natural language understanding, deep learning and text-to-speech technology. This represents a new and less blatantly artificial development in the scope of AI ability. Google Assistant is among a series of AI platforms that came to the forefront with IBM®’s Watson[2] and continue to drive innovation, investment, and challenge resolution.  As AI technology continues to evolve, we see that the output provided by such platforms can be unique. Where the output from a machine programmed computing device was once determined by a…

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