Customers increasingly hear recorded messages when they phone big businesses and government agencies, advising them they can talk to either a ‘human or a robot’. This is evidently the way of the future. Meanwhile, the UK Supreme Court recently ruled that artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be named as an inventor on patent applications. Back in 2021 an Australian court set a ground-breaking precedent, deciding artificial intelligence systems, or ‘non-human’, can be legally recognised as an inventor in patent applications.

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