If you look at digital transformation today, you have various technologies, AI, the Metaverse or even you new cloud based applications, all of them require humans in which to work them. Let's take a number of AI / ChatGPT article To quote this article ... "Leading in an AI era requires leaders who are focused on being the best leader they can be. A self-actualized people-first leader is one who focuses on growth, learning, and development. The best leaders for these times are deeply human and rely on connection and collaboration with others to create success." Google's Hot New Bard AI Is Already Spouting Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories "Some AI responses may be inaccurate" OpenAI: ChatGPT Could Disrupt 19% of US Jobs, Is Yours on the List? via @PCMag "The other issue is that GPT has shown it can make obvious mistakes, including making up information, which makes it necessary for a human to oversee the work. That's a factor the study wasn't able to take into account. In addition, the study only looked at whether ChatGPT could reduce the amount of time needed to complete various tasks by profession. This doesn't mean ChatGPT is necessarily smart enough to fully automate certain jobs."

ChatGPT is a great way to create content, but the content it creates is average. Let's not forget that AI does not have a sense of humour or understand sarcasm. I totally get many brands put out "average" content. I often get asked by brands to write content and when I give them the price, the response is always the same, they say "I can get content written on Fiverr for half the price". And they are right, but I will respond "but my content is read".

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There is a huge amount of fascinating data in this UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) study on the factors influencing investment in Artificial Intelligence. A number of things stood out to me. While the UK is number three in the world for private investment in AI, UK-based applicants only rank sixth in terms of patent activity. There seems to be a clear link between a lack of IP awareness among UK companies and UK PLCs relative weakness in scaling growth beyond the start-up stage. Indeed, participants in the study noted a propensity for investors to require patents to support an investment round.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being seen as the "secret ingredient" to a multitude of difficult technical problems. In a specific example where AI has been successfully applied to a solution, Ravin AI has developed a product which allows fleet managers to track their vehicles and to determine if any have been damaged. This has a variety of economic benefits. Notably, the company has managed to obtain patent protection for their product in Europe. It is claimed that this is the first patent for drive-by visual inspection.

Last week several newspapers ran a story about three make-up artists who had been'dismissed by algorithm' during a redundancy exercise. They sued their former employer and received an out of court settlement. Had Estee Lauder effectively outsourced its decision making to a machine to determine which employees to retain or dismiss? It had used AI (specifically facial recognition technology) to interview the women but, according to Estee Lauder, this only accounted for 1% of its decision making. The rest of the process was conducted by a human being.

Dr Thaler's international crusade for recognition of machine inventorship (which I reported on last year) is nearing the end of the line in the UK. Last week, in Thaler v Comptroller General of Patents Trade Marks And Designs [2021] EWCA Civ 1374, the Court of Appeal upheld the rejection of his DABUS patent applications. In 2018, Dr Thaler, the owner of DABUS (an artificial intelligence ("AI") creativity machine) submitted two patent applications to the UKIPO naming himself as the owner and DABUS as the inventor. The UKIPO rejected his applications on the basis that, for the purposes of the Patents Act 1977 ("PA 1997"), the inventor must be a "person" (with legal personality, such as a human or a corporate entity), and considering how ownership is derived from inventorship, Dr Thaler could not be the owner in the absence of a valid inventor. In 2020, in the Court of First Instance, Marcus Smith J upheld the UKIPO's decision, concluding that section 7 PA 1997, which sets out the classes of persons to whom patents can be granted, could not be interpreted to cover non-legal persons such as machines. On that basis, he found that the UKIPO was entitled to withdraw Dr Thaler's application under section 13 PA 1997.

Lady Gaga sings'I'm on the edge of glory and I'm hanging on a moment of truth'. Until now, the longstanding crusade to allow inventions generated by the AI machine DABUS to be patentable under existing national patent laws across different jurisdictions had not had much success. Lawyers with the "Artificial Inventor Project" had filed patent applications around the world for DABUS' 'inventions' but received a steady stream of rejections from national IP offices and courts (for instance see our Lens posts on refusals by the UKIPO, UK High Court, EPO and USPTO). Surprisingly, DABUS has had better results in recent weeks in respect of its South African and Australian applications. Is this the edge of glory?

I've just read this article about how a revolution in sales is going to take place with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Is this really the case or is the author selling AI? In this 2 minute video I explain what social selling is about, it's about being human on social. Let's imagine, tomorrow I pick you up and drive you to a place where all your prospects and customers hang out. All you have to do is have conversations with them and be human.

Ireland doesn't have a specific legal regime applicable to AI, yet it is widely deployed across a myriad of industries. We currently look to existing laws and try and fit AI into them. So when we want to incorporate AI applications into our businesses,we look for guidance in the strangest of places - the Employment Equality Acts 1988-2015 for HR deployments; the case of Donoghue -v- and Stephenson from 1932, when looking at general liability; and even the Control of Dogs Act 1986, when trying to find some analogies as to how robots or mobile AI might be treated! On 21 April the EU published its long awaited proposal for an AI Regulation. It now must go through the European Parliament and Council for consideration.