Re: There's no problem here
I agree with this distinction with one additional aspect: the product of an AI might itself be patentable, for example a design for a component that the program has created to suit the goals programmed into it by the inventor. That design can be patented, just as one created using manual design software could, but by specifying the unique and invented components of the design, not by attempting to reproduce the training process. The idea of assigning the tool as the inventor or of considering any file such a tool produces as an invention is just going to lead to lawsuits with no beneficial purpose.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
