AI Complicates Ownership of Intellectual Properties

THE BIRTH OF artificial intelligence (AI) can be traced back to as early as 1914, when Spanish engineer, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, first demonstrated The Chess Player (El Adedrecista), a fully automated machine programmed to follow specific rules. This became the foundation for increased research and scientific development of AI, and of course, computer games. However, the ideological development of AI may have been influenced by works of mathematicians, scientists, theologians or philosophers from the 17th century such as Jonathan Swift, who wrote Gulliver’s Travels that introduced the idea of The Engine, much like our computer today—a machine used to assist scholars in generating new ideas, sentences and books—or Thomas Bayes, whose theorem, Bayesian Inference, were adopted in machine learning.