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In a world first, South Africa grants patent to an artificial intelligence system

In a world first, South Africa grants patent to an artificial intelligence system

AT first glance, a recently granted South African patent relating to a “food container based on fractal geometry” seems fairly mundane. The innovation in question involves interlocking food containers that are easy for robots to grasp and stack. MESHANDREN NAIDOO, PhD Fellow and LexisNexis Legal Content Researcher and Editor, University of KwaZulu-Natal On closer inspection, the patent is anything but mundane. That’s because the inventor is not a human being – it is an artificial intelligence (AI) system called DABUS. DABUS (which stands for “device for the autonomous bootstrapping of unified sentience”) is an AI system created by Stephen Thaler,…
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