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AI is transforming the process of invention and careful thought needs to be given to how the innovation system adapts, writes UNSW Sydney's Toby Walsh and Alexandra George Ada Lovelace said computers could not invent, but a century later, Alan Turing pointed out that inventiveness in machines could be found in their capacity to produce surprising and innovative results The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can invent is nearly 200 years old, going back to the very beginning of computing. Victorian mathematician Ada Lovelace wrote what�s generally considered the first computer program. As she did, she wondered about the limits of what computers could do.

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