"Announcing the newly issued U.S. patent concerning ethical artificial intelligence. This innovation is the 1st affective language analyzer incorporating ethical/motivational terms, serving in the role of interactive computer interface. It enables a computer to reason and speak in an ethical fashion, serving in roles specifying sound human judgement: such as public relations or security functions." -- http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=6587846
A good example of yet another software patent that shouldn't have been awarded. Still, the idea of ethical AI is interesting, although I'm not convinced of their definitions or areas requiring it. Security I can understand, but public relations? I've never met an ethical PR person yet! ;-)
Posted by savs at July 6, 2003 3:21 PM