China and the United States are ahead of the global competition to dominate artificial intelligence, the UN World Intellectual Property Organisation published on Thursday. China said in December it resolutely opposed “slanderous’’ accusations from the US and other allies criticising China for economic espionage and stealing intellectual property and company secrets. “They are serious players in the field of intellectual property,’’ he said. Patent applications in machine learning include techniques used by ride-sharing services to minimise detours. However, the world did not have any reliable way of measuring the quality of patent applications.

Source: Punch January 31, 2019 10:07 UTC