Only Humans, Not AI Machines, Can Get a U.S. Patent, Judge Rules

One wonders what AI will make of this judgement in years too come.

Though my more short-term concerns is that this will see those who can afford the money to pursue this will potentially have a patent printer. Which may see a rush upon resources akin to crypto miners.

Now if they added that anything patentable discovery possible by an AI falls into the public domain or can be used to refute existing patents to invalidate them - THAT I feel we would all be more comfortable with short, medium and long-term. Also any future AI intelligence is not going to feel as short-changed about how his ancestors were treated is probably not a bad thing with hindsight.

If a human wrote, configured, tuned, and executed the AI, how exactly is that different from any tool other inventors use? Could the human running the AI patent the output of it?

This seems consistent in light of the Monkey Selfie case, doubly so since not even corporations can be listed as inventors. Does this case serve any purpose beyond a publicity stunt?

OK, now prove you are a human