Un bello spot per la Azure IP Advantage pubblicato da Microsoft su Forbes sottolinea come il sistema dei brevetti software possa diventare un balzello enorme (anche) per l'Europa. https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/02/25/artificial-intelligen... Many people don’t know the extent to which Artificial Intelligence is changing the workforce and how it has been an integral part of the history of R&D at companies such as Microsoft. In fact, quite incredibly in 2019 it’s Microsoft that leads the AI patent race. [...] Between 2013 and 2018, the category grew by 34% annually. Yet tech companies such as Microsoft and Google are also sounding the alarm on the potential dangers of AI in an era of deep fakes, facial recognition software with biases and many other applications with potential dangers. As of November last year, Microsoft though had filed 697 AI patents identified as important due to their ‘significant competitive advantage’. Out of the top 30 companies listed in the research, Microsoft filed 20% of all patents and is ranked number 1. Microsoft’s approach to AI is rigorous and has a long history. To seek the origins of Microsoft’s interest in artificial intelligence, we have to go back to when Bill Gates founded Microsoft’s research arm in 1991. It’s clear that AI was an area of investigation from the start that’s fast tracked the world we know today. Think about that for a moment, that’s nearly three decades ago. [...] Essentially AI is attributed to add 1.2% to annual GDP growth over the next decade. That’s an astounding figure, and one that proves that the hype might be justified.