China is far ahead of other countries in generative artificial intelligence inventions, such as chatbots, with six times more patents than its nearest competitor, the United States, according to data released by the United Nations.
According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which oversees a system that allows countries to share the recognition of patents, generative AI, which produces text, images, computer code and even music from existing information, is booming with more than 50,000 patent applications filed in the past decade.
According to the organization, China submitted more than 38,000 inventions in the field of artificial intelligence between 2014 and 2023, compared to 6,276 inventions submitted by the United States during the same period.
Source (Al-Sharq Al-Awsat Newspaper, Edited)
