The potential of AI – are we at a time where creativity should be passed to machines?

In the UK, there have been a few cases of inventors putting forward patent applications that name AI as one of the co-inventors. However, although AI is certainly speeding up innovation and enabling greater human creativity, AI is not yet attributed with patents on its own. The UK's Intellectual Property Office which set out UK patent law has stated that all applications must name a human as the inventor or at least one of the inventors. The reason for this is down to the origins of an AI system and how it was created.