Patents should be shorter for AI discoveries

The recent news regarding whether AI can or cannot be 'invetors' causes an issue. If companies cannot profit (getting patents) from finding new inventions such as drug discoveries, less effort and money will be put into AI to do such things.

A possible solution to this problem would be to reduce the number of years for which a company can hold a patent before becoming available for anyone in the public domain. Current patents tend to range from 15-20 years. …

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