Intellectual Property Magazine
AI and digital transformation
Issues of AI inventorship are important, but manycompanies transitioning to a software-based, data-centric business model arelikely to have more pressing concerns argues Wiggin’s Calum Smyth
Calum Smyth, Wiggin
As a concept, AIhas been around for a long time. It has been astaple in the world of fiction since at least the 1920s and, in recent years,scientists have been warning about
the approaching ‘technological singularity’when, as writer Verner Vinge described it, super-intelligent AI wouldcontinuously
upgrade themselves, advancing at an incomprehensible rate,eventually bringing about the end of the human era. In 2005, Ray
Kurzweilpredicted that the singularity would occur in approximately 2045 and prominentscientists and industrialists (famously
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk) havewarned of the dangers of AI.