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No, AI cannot be named as an inventor, UK Supreme Court says
The UK’s supreme court has ruled that AI cannot be named as an inventor and secure patent rights. It follows earlier decisions from lower courts that reached the same conclusions.
On Wednesday, US computer scientist Stephen Thaler lost his attempt to register patents for inventions he says were created by his AI system, DABUS.
Thaler said DABUS autonomously created a light beacon and a container for food and drink, and entitled to rights over the inventions.
Former NASA Astronaut Explains How to Poop in Space
If you ever find yourself aboard a spaceship exploring the profound mysteries of the universe and you have the sudden urge to poop — former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino has some insights for you.
“It requires a lot of training,” Massimino told “The Daily Show” guest host Kal Penn during a recent segment. “You get rendezvous training and robotics training in space, and there would be potty training.”
Because toilets on board NASA spacecraft are unlike Earth-bound commodes, he explained, you will need practice. These space thrones don’t use water but instead use negative air presure to suck away waste like a vacuum.
DNA Tests Are a Fun Holiday Gift… Unless They Reveal a Horrifying Secret
The holiday season means presents galore — but in the case of at-home DNA tests, some gifts may be better left unopened.
As experts told USA Today, the prevalence of self-serve DNA testing has made it much more likely that people discover painful family secrets — for instance, that one or both of your parents are not your genetic relatives — upon getting their results.
For years now, we’ve come across reports about people learning of their parents’ affairs via DNA testing kits from companies like Ancestry or 23andme.
Bosses Deploying AIs in Video Meetings to Lecture Employees for Bad Behavior
AI is here to enforce Zoom etiquette, apparently.
As The Wall Street Journal reports, a growing number of companies are using AI bots in video meetings to mediate, transcribe, and — yes — etiquette-check participants who may be lecturing or interrupting others. Often, according to the report, the bots are just silent notetakers, there to either summarize the meeting for someone who can’t be there, or keep minutes for the group. In other cases, though, the bots will pipe up to let speakers know whether they might be droning on a bit too much.
“It was like, monologue!” Josh Stir, the senior software development manager for a tax services company, told the WSJ of his experience with a Zoom behavior bot. The AI seemingly thought the software developer was speaking too flatly, urging Stir to raise and lower his pitch in order to maintain the group’s interest.