TPN 'We are facing a new world' with AI, says Microsoft patent attorne

In the coming years "artificial intelligence (AI) will become pervasive and touch every aspect of our lives and we'll wonder how we ever did without it", explained Sonia Cooper, senior patent attorney of IP policy and strategy at Microsoft. Cooper made her prediction at Technology Patent Network Europe in London today, June 21. Speaking on a panel titled "The Outlook for AI Patents", Cooper was keen to extinguish any concerns about the role of AI in the future. She said: "When we think about AI we perhaps think about robots taking over the world, or machines getting more and more intelligent and outperforming us. The reality, of course, is quite different."