How AI and copyright would work

He previously held directorships in both public libraries and corporate libraries and earned joint master's degrees in Library and Information Sciences and Medieval European History from Catholic University of America. Self-aware robots, androids or call-them-what-you-will have been part of science fiction almost from its beginnings. But let's take a step back and consider what we know already, and then move on to what may soon be coming. Think about programs like Google's DeepMind, or the natural language generation program Wordsmith. Because the programs themselves involve no specific human interference or guidance, the results might be best construed as the intellectual property of those who "worked the machine," i.e. the users.