Public health researchers in the US are proposing a novel approach to encourage self-regulation within the AI community, with the aim of reducing harmful outcomes without stifling innovation. “Efforts to promote ethical and trustworthy AI must go beyond what is legally mandated as the baseline for acceptable conduct,” said Jennifer Wager of Penn State University. “We can and should strive ...
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Law needs to credit inventive computers in patents
Inventions generated by artificial intelligence are rising without the legal framework to manage the issue of patents, according to law professor Ryan Abbott at the University of Surrey.
Payday For Nujira As Qualcomm Enters RF Market
Qualcomm’s RF front end chip-set could trigger a big payday for a small UK company.
Is Patent Boom Bust?
Has the patent boom burst? Kodak is looking for $2.6 billion for its imaging patents. Offers have ranged from $150 million to $250 million.
Great Patent Boom On The Wane
Is the Great Patent Boom over? Wireless patent troll InterDigital’s bid to sell itself seems to be failing.
Patent Bubble Draining Cash From Mobile Industry
An over-excited banker is not a pretty sight and there are plenty of them around with the M&A prospects now opening up in the mobile sector.
Fable: The Company Which Got It Right Too Late
There was once a chief engineer on a computer development project which founded a new class of computer – the minicomputer.
Pasquale Pistorio To Be Interviewed At Geneva IEF
It’s very good to hear that Pasquale Pistorio, the great former CEO of STMicroeletronics, will be publicly interviewed at the International Electronics Forum in Geneva the week after next.
Beggar-My-Neighbour
A sign of the times: chip companies are turning to lawyers to boost revenues. The US International Trade Commission reports the highest number of new IP complaints in 2008 since 1983 – a total of 42.
Why Does Qualcomm Keep Losing?
Forbes magazine dismisses Qualcomm’s defeat in the US courts by Broadcom as a ‘minor bump’. Qualcomm has been ordered to pay Broadcom all the profit it has made from its QChat service whatever that is, and whatever they may be. What’s significant is that it is another legal defeat in a long series of defeats.