Can an AI system invent? Does the tech have the intellectual right?

A long-standing legal dispute to determine whether generative AI technologies can be named as the legal creators of their innovations has reached the highest court in the land, with a hearing at the UK Supreme Court on 2nd March 2023. A similar appeal hearing is underway at the US Supreme Court too. These hearings have been brought by a group of academics and inventors who believe that a generative AI system, called Dabus AI, is solely responsible for its own innovative outputs, two of which are the subject of patent applications filed in the UK, Europe and the US. These innovations include a novel interlocking food container that is easy for robots to handle, and a warning light or beacon that flickers in a rhythm similar to neural activity, which makes it difficult to ignore. Developed by Stephen Thaler in 1994, Dabus AI, also known as'The Creativity Machine', is a computational paradigm that claims to replicate human cognition.