DABUS becomes the first AI inventor
DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) is a “Creative AI” developed by Stephen Thaler.
IBM is patenting a bias detecting mechanism for chatbots
Computing giant IBM has come up with a system that enables “conversational agents” to automatically detect and correct unintended biases.
AI could enable security cameras to pinpoint gun carriers
AlgoLook, a company specializing in artificial intelligence products, is patenting a method that enables video cameras to detect and identify weapons.
Accenture is patenting AI that can tell how cars get damaged
Inventors from Accenture have developed artificial intelligence that uses images of a car to predict causes of damage, along with costs of repair.
LG seeks patent for smart oven that controls its own heat
South Korea’s LG Electronics has filed a patent application for an oven with artificial intelligence that ensures the proper cooking of food according to recipes set by the user.
Microsoft patent application details skills marketplace for chatbots
Inventors from Microsoft have developed a system that enables chatbots to help each other in fulfilling user requests. It grants them access to a skills marketplace where the artificial intelligence systems are assigned respective rankings.
Boeing is patenting a robotic pilot that can read emotions
Four years after Boeing shared its vision of pilotless planes, the aerospace giant takes a half-step toward self-flying aircraft with a patent application for a robotic co-pilot.
AI model warns type 1 diabetes patients of hypoglycemia risk before sleep
An algorithm that uses artificial intelligence could help patients with type 1 diabetes anticipate and potentially avoid nocturnal hypoglycemia by notifying them of their risk before going to sleep.
Ping An, Philips filed the most digital health patents in last 3 years: report
Ping An Insurance Group and Philips were the world’s most prolific digital health patent applicants in the last three years, according to the China Digital Technology Development Working Committee (CDTC).
Huawei to “amend” patent application for AI-powered identification of Uighurs
Chinese tech giant Huawei is in hot water over a facial recognition patent application, wherein the AI-powered technology might play into the issue of discrimination of China’s ethnic Uighur Muslim population.Video surveillance research group IPVM called out Shenzhen-based Huawei for its 2018 patent application for an “object attribute recognition method, device, computing equipment, and system.” […]
