Brandon Vigliarolo, The Register; US patent office wants an AI to scan for prior art, but doesn't want to pay for it
"There is some irony in using AI bots, which are often trained on copyrighted material for which AI firms have shown little regard, to assess the validity of new patents.
It may not be the panacea the USPTO is hoping for. Lawyers have been embracing AI for something very similar - scanning particular, formal documentation for specific details related to a new analysis - and it's sometimes backfired as the AI has gotten certain details wrong. The Register has reported on numerous instances of legal professionals practically begging to be sanctioned for not bothering to do their legwork, as judges caught them using AI, which borked citations to other legal cases.
The risk of hallucinating patents that don't exist, or getting patent numbers or other details wrong, means that there'll have to be at least some human oversight. The USPTO had no comment on how this might be accomplished."
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