Last year, the South African government granted a patent to an AI system called Dabus, which invented a method to interlock food containers.
Source
Verdict
persistedThe same trend is listed again within the publisher's next two editions (D33). Same subject listed again in 2023.
A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).
The same forecast in other editions
All captured fields
- rank
- 27
- section
- Artificial Intelligence
- subsection
- Creative Field Trends
- subject
- AI-Assisted Invention
- horizon
- Act Now
- page
- 63
- confidence
- high
- note
- horizon is the label the page header highlights (Watch Closely / Informs Strategy / Act Now); it applies to the page the trend starts on.